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CONTENTS 


OF 


THE SECOND VOLUME. 


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CHAPTER I. 


CURIOUS TRIAL FOR MURDER. 


PAGE 
Miss Hills—Living at “a boarding-house—Becomes acquainted 


with a medical man and his wife—Intimacy—Leaves the 
boarding-house— Marriage— Goes to live at Richmond— 
Becomes ill—Attended by two doctors—Becomes worse— 
Physician sent for—Dies on May 3, having previously made 
a will in hu sband’s favour—Arrest of hushand—Letter from 
accused — Conviction— Mistake of Dr. Taylor — Probable 
origin—Death of a Mr. G .—Curious statement . onal 


CHAPTER II. 
[PELLIZZIONI TRIALS. 


Disturbance in a_ public-house—Harrington stabbed—A fter- 
wards died— Tried at the Central Court—Mr. Baron Martin 
the judge—C onviction—Interference on his behalf—Confes- 
sion of Mogni— His trial—Pellizzioni tried for wounding 
Rebbeck —Conduct of the police—I receive a visit from the 
Marquis D’ Azeglio— Another case of police evidence and trial 
for perjury . : ; . : ; : : : . 16 


CHAPTER ITI. 


MAGISTRATES AND POLICE. 


Condition of Regent Street—Charges by the police—Mr, Knox— 
Removal of the division—I am taken into custody—Sir 
Alexander Cockburn—Complain to the Commissioner— An- 


vl - CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 

PAGE . 
swer—Pretended witness—Prosecution of a constable-—High- 
handed proceedings—Imprudent publicity of police proceed- 
ings—Kingston Hill murder—Coroners’ courts—Thames 
Police Court—Hodgson and Abbott, the Brewers—Irish and 
Jews—Aaron Smith—Change of court and practice—My 
father and the Home Office—Position of magistrates. soe 


CHAPTER IV. 
ELECTION COMMITTEES. 


Parliamentary practice—Coppock — Cockburn—Harrison and Joy 
—Anecdote—Serjeant Merewether—Henry Merewether, Q.C. 
—Hope Scott—-Beckett—Denison—Rodwell—Election com- 
mittees—Prosecutions for bribery—The ballot—Its insufti- 
ciency—Mr. Justice Fitzjames Stephen— W addington—Locke 
—Tipperary petition—Anecdote—Arch bishop of Cashel—Ex- 
tensive bribery—Anecdote—Bristol petition—Witness suc- 
cessfully cross-examined—Trial at Bristol Sessions—Serjeant 
Kinglake—Mr. Collins-—Montagu Williams—Ribton—Ob- 
stinate juryman—Acquittal of accused . : ; ; .~ 40 


CHAPTER V. 
ELECTION COMMITTEES CONTINUED. 


Election judges—Martin—Lush— W illes—Blackburn—Mellor— 
Grove—Bradford—Petition against Forster—Successful ter- 
mination—Letter from FT orster to myself—Westminster— 
Petitions—Decision for Smith—Lush—Bramwell—Blackburn 
—Hastings petition—Mr. and Mrs. Brassey—Wallingford— 
Petition against Vickers—Sir Charles Dilke—Interest taken 
by the ladies—Awkward position of the judge—Scruples of a 
brewer—Decision in favour of the seat—Petersham petition 
—Tamworth petition—Justice Willes— His extraordinary con- 
duct—Attack upon me—TIlis denial of intention—Letter from 
Mr. Peel—His statement—My opinion of Mr. Justice Willes 53 


CHAPTER VI. 
THE UNION CLUB. 


The Union Club—Its date—The first meeting—Mr. Raggett, 
manager—Numezous peers members—Committee of five, in- 
eluding Sir Robert Peel—Plot of ground purchased—IMlouse 


CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Vil 


: PAGE 
built—Became member in 1852—Sir John Jervis—Lord Jus- 


tice Bruce—Montague Chambers—Selwyn—Justice Byles— 

_ Messrs. Goslings—Mr. Veasey—Anecdote of my mother—Sir 
Frederick Slade—Sir Henry Webb—Sir Thomas Henry—Sir 
John Bayley—Mr. Justice Maule—Death of Henry—Anec- 
dote of the Bishop of Bath and Wells—Anecdote of a Derby 
Day—Anecdote of two barristers—Position of one of them . 67 


I 


035: oat en 
MADAME RACHEL. 


Madame Rachel—Her visits to Drury Lane Theatre—Her shop 
in Bond Street—Her extortion—The Beauty—Imposition 
upon her—Causing her arrest—Interference of friends—Pro- 
secution of Madame Rachel—Use of 4 nobleman’s name— 
Imprisonment of Madame Rachel—Afterwards took to her 
old courses—Again imprisoned—Death—Murder of De la 
Rue—Curious conduct of the murderer—Mysterious letter— 
Trial— Interview with Hocker— Found guilty—Case of 
Franz Miller — Lefroy—Trial at Guildhall — Morrison v. 
Belcher — ‘ Zadkiel’s Almanack ’— Pretences of Morrison — 
Dr. Robinson—Prophecies—Cockburn—Sir Edward Bulwer 
Lytton—Admiral Belcher—Mr. Slade—Middlesex magistrates 
—Mr. Edlin 4 ; ; 4 5 : ; 4 eras 


CHAPTER VIII. 
CURIOUS TRIALS. 


Risk Allah Bey—Landseer—Cockburn—Thackeray’s allusion to 
foreigners—Curious story of Risk Allah—His marriage—The 
death of his ward—His trial for murder at Brussels, and also for 
fraud and passing forged notes—Action against ‘Daily Tele- 
graph ’— Damages—Brings another action for the loss of 
3,0002. in specie—Extraordinary story—Defendants an insur- 
ance company—lI was counsel for them—Jury discharged— 
Action never renewed—Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street—Resi- 
dents there—Sir Thomas Wilde—Case of Small and Attwood 
—Anecdote—Unpopular sentences—Meeting at Wiesbaden 
—Lord Truro—Sir Frederick Pollock—Matthew Davenport 
Hill—Martin appointed judge. : : ; : oo 


Vill CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 


CHAPTER IX. 


SIR EDWIN LANDSEER 
PAGE 


Club at the Piazza—Mr. Landseer—Meeting with Sir Edwin— 
His works—Am his counsel—Action by a tailor for the price 
of a coat—Sir Edwin tries it on in court—His demeanour—A 
tailor on the jury—Amusing tableau; great laughter—Wil- 
liam Harrison Ainsworth—Pleasant party—Jack Sheppard 
—Dudley Costello—Ainsworth’s truthful prophecy—Lola 
Montes—Her marriage—Charge of bigamy—Bean firing at the 
Queen—Her self-possession—Defend Connor and Good also 
—Captain Charitie—Mr. Healy—Am counsel for him—A 
soldier flogged to death—F logging proper for certain culprits 100 


CHAPTER X. 


CHIEF JUSTICES. 


Chief Justices Tenterden, Denman, Oampbell, Cockburn— 
Curious mistake of Campbell—Anecdote of Tenterden— 
Baron Richards—Character of Cockburn—As an advocate— 
Great powers—Often opposed to Thesiger—Became member 
for Southampton—Great speech in Parliament—His promotion 
—Not equal as a judge—Too hasty—Humane—K nowledge of 
modern languages—Death of Phinn—Visit shortly before 
Cockburn’s death—Mr. Walsh—Schoolfellow with me at St. 
Paul’s—Lunatic asylums—Description by Charles Reade— 
Insanity j : : . ; ; : : . ret ae 


CHAPTER XI. 
DERBY WILL CASE. 


Extraordinary will case—Brought before numerous tribunals— 
Pretence of finding codicils in different places—Great im- 
probability —Question of handwriting—Codicils all disputed— 
Serjeant Hayes with myself for defence—His humorous 
speech—Summing up of Cockburn—<Action upon three pro- 
missory notes—Somewhat similar in their circumstances— 
Tried before Baron Huddleston—Jury discharged—a fter- 
wards before Lord Chief Justice Coleridge—Verdict for de- 
fendants—Doubts as to evidence of handwriting . : . 123 


CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 1X 


CHAPTER XII. 


ENTRIES IN AN OLD DIARY. 

PAGE 

An apology—Entry in diary—First meeting with Charles is 
Dickens—Sir Charles Forbes—My brother—Another entry— 
Engagement to be married—Dr. Croly—Mr. Stutfield— 
Mrs. Cruly—Her opinion of her husband—Alderman Gibbs 
—Planché—Madame Vestris—Tom Duncombe—Wakley— 
Serjeant Spankie—Bon Mot—Anecdote of Duncombe— 
Horace Claggett—Miss Day—Regimental joke—Planché’s 
extensive knowledge of the theatre—Mr. and Mrs. Frank 

Matthews. : wees : : ° : : . 135 


CHAPTER XIII. 


‘PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. 


The Mayor of Cork—Attempt to murder the Duke of Edinburgh 
—Daniel O’Sullivan—His conduct—Approval of the attempt 
—Disgust of society—Action of the House of Commons—I 
am appointed counsel to the House—Resignation of the Mayor 
—Meeting with two old friends—The Hon. James Stuart Wort- 
ley and Paddy Green—Wortley—Character and career— 
Horace Pitt—Countess of Wicklow—Claim of peerage for an 
alleged son—I am retained—Return retainer—Case taken 
to House of Lords—Fraud exposed—Horace Pitt became Lord 
Rivers—Death of his wife—Subsequent marriage—His belief 
in the Claimant—His death . : ; : Ft . 145 


CHAPTER XIV. 


VIVISECTION. 


Occasional recklessness—Opinions of Sir William Fergusson— 
Also of Mr. Richard Holt Hutton—Articles in the ‘ Nineteenth 
Century’ review — Sir James Paget — Professor Owen — 

Dr. Samuel Wilks—Their opinions—Differences between 
Fergusson and Paget—Difficulty of fair discussion upon the 
subject—Calculated to induce speculative operations—Value 
of evidence—Recent case—Operations upon cats and mon- 
keys—Conduct of students . . A : . : . 158 


x CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 


CHAPTER XV. 


THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY. 


PAGE 
Marvellous story—Enormous amount expended in defence— 


Chief Justice Bovill—Cockburn—Kenealy—Sketch of Sir 
Roger’s early days—Goes to Stonyhurst—Afterwards to 
Paris—Then into the Carabineers—Quitted England—Went 
to Rio de Janeiro—Embarked for England on board the 
‘ Bella ’—Narrative of Claimant—Saved from the wreck—And 
landed in Australia—Lives in poverty—Marries—In business 
as a butcher in Wagga Wagea—Death of Sir Roger's father 
—Advertisement for lost son—His arrival in London—Visit 
to Wapping—Retainer of Mr. Holmes—Recognition by Lady 
Tichborne—My impression of his appearance—I had an in- 
terview with Lady Tichborne and accepted retainer for the 
Claimant . : " : : : ‘ : ‘ at 


CHAPTER XVI. 


COMMENCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS. 


Affidavits filed—Tattoo marks not mentioned—Claimant cross- 
examined—Employment of Chancery barrister—No question 
put about tattoo marks—Absurd excuse if fact was known— 
Improbability of solicitor or counsel for Claimant going on 
with the case if such a fact had been proved—Commence- 
ment of suit in Common Pleas—Counsel engaged—Jury— 
Case might have been stopped earlier than it was—Claimant 
called—Cross-examination — Address of Solicitor-General— 
Witnesses—I submit to a non-suit—Closing scene—Com- 
mittal of Claimant—Doubtful propriety of this course . . 169 


CHAPTER XVII. 


INDICTMENT OF CLAIMANT, 


Before Cockburn, Mellor, and Lush—Hawkins and Parry for 
the prosecution—Dr. Kenealy for the defence—Character and 
conduct of Kenealy—‘ The Englishman ’—Kenealy’s calum- 
nies—Prejudicial effect upon Claimant—Imprudent conduct 


CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. yg 


PAGE 
of case—Proper mode of conducting it—Important effect of 
Lady Tichborne’s recognition— Paris witnesses— Kenealy’s 
imprudence—Mr. MacMahon—Retirement of Mellor—Death 
womeuwen “"' . : : : : : ‘ ae 2 cite!) 


CHAPTER XVIII. 
LORD WESTBURY. 


_ Kindness to myself—Vote of censure upon him—His resig- 
nation—Verdict of manslaughter against his brother-in-law 
—Defended by Cockburn— Kind behaviour of Bethell 
—Immediate acquittal—Middle Temple library—Trial of 
Hopley—Shocking brutality—Conviction—His brother—In- 
stance of Cockburn’s sense of justice—Mr. Scherer—Labori- 
ousness of Cockburn—Blackburn—A great Judge—Fracas 
with High Sheriff—High Sheriff fined . . : , ealtet, 


CHAPTER XIX. 
AMALGAMATION OF COMMON AND EQUITY SYSTEM. 


Baron de Vidil—Assault upon his son—Trial before Blackburn 
—Conviction—Trial of Karl Frantz—Acquittal—Amalgama- 
tion of the Common and Equity law—KEquity barristers in 
criminal courts—Difference between civil and criminal juris- 
dictions—Want of Appeal Court—Reference to poisoning 
case—Certain axioms—Criminal Code Commission—Theory 
of a criminal court—System of transportation—Unfortunate 
position of convicts under present system . ; : . 197 


CHAPTER XX. 


PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE GAEKWAR OF BARODA. 


I am retained—Retrospect necessary—Voyage to India—Great 
changes—P. and O. Company—Incidents of a wreck—Captain 
Mackeson—Sir Richard Garth—Journey to Brindisi— 
Voyage to Alexandria—Train across the desert—The ‘ Aus- 
tralia’—Captain Murray—Brides—<Accident to a dog—-The 
Southern Cross—Curious appearance—Aden—Arrival at 
Bombay — Kind reception — Messrs. Jefferson and Payne— 
Bycullah Club—Parsee cemetery—Chisholm Anstey . BOG 


Xl CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 


CHAPTER XXI. 


ARRIVAL AT BARODA. 


PAGE 
Trial of the Gaekwar—lI leave Bombay for Baroda—lIts extent 


—Origin of the name Gaekwar—History of country and 
monarch—Journey by train—Kind reception upon the 
road and upon arrival—Our residence—Mrs. Scobell—F lower 
garden—Excessive heat—Monkeys—Parrots—Cobras—Town 
of Baroda—The population—Heaviness—Cheetahs—Highland 
dress of regiment—Camels—Elephants—Tigers—Her Ma- 
jesty-—Gracious reception—Kindness of Mr. Branson—Pre- 
sents of fish and fruit—Sir Lewis Pelly—His me 
English regiment—Docility ofa partridge . : . 220 


CHAPTER XXII. 
COMMENCEMENT OF TRIAL. 


Meeting of Commissioners—Intense heat—Trial commenced— 
Scindia—Sir Dunker Rao—The Maharajah of Jeypore—Sir 
Richard Couch—Sir Richard John Meade—Counsel for pro- 
secution—Counsel for defence—Picture of the Gaekwar— 
Conduct of trial—Evidence of Colonel Phayre—His character 
—Complaint of his conduct—His dismissal—Charge of poison- 
ing—His extraordinary account—Not adverted to in the 
judgment—Phayre’s telegram—His letter—Dr. Seward— 
Bowh Poonaka—Dr. Seward’s interference—Insult to the 
Gaekwar . : : ; é ; 4 : ; Pet 


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CHAPTER XXIII. 
CONCLUSION. OF TRIAL. 


Continuance of trial—Curious discovery—Raoji’s belt Hemchund 
Futeychund—His credit disputed by the English Commis- 
sioners—Believed by the natives—No real attempt at poison 
—Object of discovering the parcel of arsenic—Damadhur Punt 
—His object in giving evidence—Feeling of the audience at 
his evidence—Result—Reasons given—Documents published 
by Mr. Aitcheson—Charge against English press—Untrue— 
Curious decision of Government—Kind conduct of the 
Gaekwar—Now in the custody of Seward ; ? . 241 


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CHAPTER XXIV. | 


RETURN TO ENGLAND. 


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Termination of trial—Pleasant life during its continuance—De- 


parture—Voyage home—My embarkation—Met by a large 
concourse of natives—Bidding me adieu—Handsome testimo~ 
nial—Present of his portrait from the Gaekwar—Meet Sir 
Lewis Pelly in London—He dines with Sir Napier Sturt and 
myself at the Garrick Club—His Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales honouring us with hiscompany : 4 . 261 


CHAPTER XXV. 


CHANGES IN THE LAW. 


State of the Law fifty years ago—Gross Abuses—The Marshal- 
sea—Jacob Omnium—Small number of Queen’s Counsel— 
Serjeants’ Inn—Abolition without due consideration—Emi- 
nence of Equity Barristers—Untitness to preside in Criminal 
cases—Grounds of this unfitness—Different trials—Wrong 
verdicts—Oourt of Criminal Appeal necessary—Grounds for 
its adoption—Courtesy between Bench and Bar—Connection 
between Serjeants’ Inn and the City—November 9—Sir 
Thomas Chambers—His absurd blunder—Serjeant Woolrych 
—St. Paul’s—Sir John and Lady Holker—Stonyhurst—A con- 
scientious clergyman—Lord Justice John Holker . 


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CHAPTER XXVI. 


OBJECTIONABLE CUSTOMS. 


Duel between Mirfin and Elliot—Trial of the seconds—Found 
guilty—Pugilism—Formerly creating admiration—Juries un- 
willing to convict—The decadence of pugilism— Unfairness— 
Sayers and Heenan fight—Acrohats—Brutal exhibition— 
Letter from the Queen—Union Club—Tom Holmes—Lord 
Lowther—Lord Rivers—Fraudulent ballot—Eccentricities in 
clubs—Anecdotes—I become possessed of a letter of the 
Duke of Wellington to my father—The Union a non-political 
club . . eke > : ‘ : ; “ : : 7 220 


XIV CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 


CH ALP PERU XV hae 


THE LAST CHAPTER. 
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Mr. Teesdale—His son—A most valuable client—Incident in 


poisoning case—Anecdote of a Chairman of Quarter Ses- 
sions—Advantage of clerical advice—Mr. Serjeant Thomas— 
Serjeant Wilkins’ anecdote—Anecdote of Mrs. Thomas— 
Gratifying letter—Photograph of Homburg Spring— Young 
Boucicault — Melancholy end — Majority of: criminals — The 
fair Alice — Lord Frankfort — Trial of Alice — Acquittal 
Adolphus—Her engagement at a theatre—Her subsequent 
career—Another trial— A heautiful girl—Awkward position 
for a gentleman—Her trial—Conviction—Transportation— 
Marriage—Convict wives. ; ; ; : : eee 


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A BARRISTER’S LIFE. 


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CHAPTER I. 


_ CURIOUS TRIAL FOR MURDER. 


I am about to tell a story the circumstances of 
which would be thought improbable in a ro- 
mance, and yet every word of it is true; and 
there are incidents which I believe to be con- 
nected with it that would add to its strangeness, 
but which I suppress because I do not possess 
the proofs requisite for their authentication. 

What I shall relate will disclose a series of 
blunders, the danger of placing too great reliance 
upon scientific testimony, and the want ofa tribunal 
capable of revising decisions alleged to have been 
erroneous in criminal cases. 

- The unfortunate victim was a lady who, at the 
VOL. II. ied 


BIGAMY. 


date of my narrative, might still be entitled to be 
called young, and certainly was of that opinion 
herself. She was a member of a highly respect- 
able family, and possessed of some 2,000/. entirely 
at her own disposal, and had some further expect- 
ancies. She was not fond of the trammels of home 
life, and, preferring to reside at a boarding- house, 
she selected the establishment of a respectable lady 
at Bayswater, where also resided a medical man 
and his wife, the former about fifty years old, the 
latter twenty years older. An intimacy sprang up 
between the doctor and the lodger (whom we will 
call Miss Hills), of which the mistress of the house 
did not approve, and gave Miss Hills notice to 
leave, which she did upon November 29 in the 
above year. The doctor also left upon December 
12 following, and was married the same day to 
Miss Hills at Battersea Church. Oddly enough no 
surprise was expressed by the doctor’s wife, and 
her position in the affair is very difficult to be 
understood ; it will certainly be made apparent by 
the course of events that she was in communica- 
tion with her husband and upon apparently affec- 
tionate terms. Nothing more is known with cer- 
tainty of the doctor and Miss Hills until February 
the 4th, when they took apartments in one of 
the suburbs, where they remained until April the 
1dth, living as man and wife, and upon leaving went 


Ne Ee ee 


ILLNESS OF MISS HILLS. 3 


to another residence in the neighbourhood. It is 
to be remarked that from the time of their removal. 
in February Miss Hills was apparently suffering 
from illness, and one of the best-known medical 
men in the neighbourhood was called in to see 
her. It must be borne in mind, in reference to 
statements subsequently relied upon by the prisoner 
that no suggestion was then made by him that 
she was pregnant, but he stated that she was sui- 
fering from a bilious attack. It would not, how- 


ever, assist the general reader or help to develop 


the story to give any details of the symptoms 
then exhibited. 

Suffice it to say that the local practitioner 
found, to his great astonishment, that none of his 
remedies produced the slightest effect, and he felt 
confident that some agent was at work to counteract 
them. Naturally he was very loth to express such 
an opinion, and he continued to watch the case 
with great anxiety; and, without mentioning his 
suspicions to his partner, requested that gentleman 
to take charge of the patient for two or three days, 
which accordingly he did. At the end of that time 
he also was impressed with the same conviction, and 
declared his positive opinion that the lady was being 
placed under the influence of poison, thus fully sup- 
porting the view previously arrived at byhis partner. 

Towards the latter end of April, the sister of 

B 2 


4 MISS HILLS’ DEATH. 


Miss Hills was for the first time communicated 
with, and she at once came. Her evidence does 
not throw any light upon the case, except that she 
deposed that her sister’s health was generally good, 
and that, although she occasionally suffered from 
bilious attacks, they succumbed readily to simple 
treatment. Her appearance at this time was so 
alarming that, at the sister’s suggestion, another 
medical man was sent for, and one of the most 
eminent physicians of the day attended, and saw 
her on the last day of April. No communi- 
cation was made to this gentleman of the suspi- 
cions entertained, but the first words he uttered 
after his examination were, ‘That lady is being 
poisoned !’ 

A portion of arsenic was discovered in some 
vomit that was analysed by the well-known chemist 
Professor Taylor; and this, joined to the absolute 
conviction of all three medical men, induced one 
of them to apply for a warrant, and the pseudo-hus- 
band was arrested upon it. He was, however, by 
an utterly unaccountable blunder, released, the 
magistrates accepting his statement that his absence 
would kill his wife, and allowing him access to his 
apartment without supervision. His release, how- 
ever, did not prevent the fatal result, for on the 
following day, May 3, the unfortunate lady died in 
oreat suffermg. A post-mortem examination was 


MISS HILLS’ WILL. . 


held upon her body, and both arsenic and antimony 
were discovered in different parts of the intestines. 
It was proved by the landlady of the house in 
which she died that the supposed husband alone 
waited upon her, declining upon the ground of 
poverty (for which there was no foundation) to 
employ a nurse, and that no portions of the food 
sent up to their rooms were ever returned. In 
giving an account of the illness and death of this 
poor woman I have avoided details of a technical 
character as much as possible, but I think I have 
said enough to make my views intelligible; and I 
have now to call attention to certam facts that 
must be taken in conjunction with the medical 
evidence to enable the reader to form a sound 
conclusion upon the case. 

On Saturday, the 12th of April, the accused man 
called upon a solicitor, and requested him to call 
the next day for the purpose of drawing out a will, 
at the same time showing him the draft of one 
which he said a barrister had prepared. The soli- 
citor objected to doing so on Sunday, but, being: 
told that the lady was ill, consented, if sent for, to 
come. His visitor called again the next morning, 
and brought him to where he and Miss Hills 
were residing. The lawyer wished that a medical 
man should be present, but this was declined. ‘The 
draft that he had seen before was produced; and 


6 COMMITTAL OF ACCUSED. 


a will was drawn up founded upon it, which left 
everything to the accused, and Miss Hills executed 
it, signing her maiden name. 

It was proved at the trial that in a box belong- 
ing to the prisoner were found subsequently many 
forms of wills, and also a letter, which for some 
reason had not been forwarded, directed to his - 
wife, and which appeared to me one of the most 
significant incidents in the case. The letter was 
dated May 2, and contained an intimation that he 
(the prisoner) had been prevented by circum- 
stances from leaving for town so soon as he ex- 
pected in consequence of his professional assistance 
being required by a patient on whom he was at- 
tending, and that, 2/ anything unforeseen prevented 
him from leaving before the 11th, money should be 
sent to her for certam purposes, and concluded 
with the expression of a hope that he might find 
her quite well on. his return, which he trusted 
would not long be delayed. 

I have already stated that Miss Hills died 
upon May 3, and the supposed widower, who in 
the meanwhile had unrestricted access to his room, 
being again taken into custody, was examined 
before a bench of magistrates, and finally com- 
mitted to take his trial for murder at the Central 
Criminal Court, and in due course he came before 
the Lord Chief Baron Pollock. It so happened that 


TRIAL BEFORE CHIEF BARON POLLOCK. T 


upon the second day of the trial a juryman was 
taken ill, the jury were consequently discharged, and . 
the case was adjourned to a subsequent sessions, 
when the same judge presided. I conducted’ the 
prosecution, and the facts as I have related them, 
but in greater detail, were proved. Mr. Serjeant 
Parry, with whom was Mr. Giffard, defended, and 
two abler men could not have been selected. 
Medical practitioners were called by them to prove 
that the appearances detailed were consistent with 
natural causes; and one gentleman, who had 
figured for the same purpose upon the Palmer trial, 
started a theory to support this opinion. 

The Lord Chief Baron pointed out that it was 
not from isolated symptoms that a conclusion could 
be formed, but by the aggregate of all of them 
joined to the independent facts of the case—the 
‘same doctrine in fact as that enforced by Lord 
Campbell upon the trial of Palmer—and the jury, 
as it appeared to me at the time, and [I still think, 
came to the right and almost inevitable conclusion 
of the prisoner’s guilt. A great outcry, however, 
subsequently arose, a medical war was waged with 
great vigour in the newspapers, and petitions were 
forwarded to the Secretary of State. Two docu- 
ments also were produced; one a letter to Miss 
Hill’s sister, and another an entry by the prisoner 
in adiary. The fact was suppressed that copies 


S APPEAL TO HOME SECRETARY. 


_ of both were in the hands of the prisoner at the time 
of the trial, and that I had offered to put them in 
evidence if it was desired on his behalf, and the 
Secretary of State was probably drawn into the 
conclusion that they had been kept back against 
his wishes. 

Ultimately the matter was referred to Sir Ben- 
jamin Brodie to report upon, and he obviously 
could only deal with it in its purely medical phase, 
and without the ight thrown upon it by the other 
evidence. Of course no one on the part of the pro- 
secution could interfere. The Home Secretary 
ultimately released the prisoner, who afterwards 
proved the will of Miss Hills and thus secured pos- 
session of her property.! 

When the following facts are brought to the 
attention of the reader, this result can easily be 
understood. 

It will be remembered that on the day before 
the death of Miss Hills, the accused man was given 
into custody, but released. Whether this could 
have been under any circumstances prudent, it is 
abundantly clear that either everything that could 
throw light upon the subject ought to have been 
taken possession of beforehand, or some watch 
placed upon the supposed husband; but neither 


1 After the pardon for the murder he was tried, convicted, and 
imprisoned for twelve months for bigamy. 


PROFESSOR TAYLOR'S MISTAKE. 9 . 


was done. He obtained access to his room, and 
I have very little doubt that he laid a trap, into 
which Dr. Taylor innocently fell. A/ter the death, 
everything that the prisoner had allowed to re- 
main was secured, when it was noticed that the 
medicines supplied by the local practitioners were 
nearly untouched, and there was nothing to ex- 
cite suspicion but one bottle filled with colourless 
liquid. This was immediately pounced upon; it was 
known that arsenic had already been discovered, 
and so Professor Taylor set to work upon a portion 
of the liquid with the usual test for the discovery 
of that poison. This-is called Reinsch’s test, and 
consists in mixing a small quantity of hydrochloric 
acid with the liquid to be tested, and then dropping 
into it a. piece of copper gauze, upon which, if 
there be any arsenic in the mixture, it 1s supposed 
to attach itself. Accordingly this was done with a 
portion of the liquid in question, but, instead of 
the gauze attracting anything, it became itself dis- 
solved. Another piece of gauze, and then a third 
met with the same fate: at last traces of arsenic 
did attach themselves to a piece of the wire which 
had not dissolved, and when before the magis- 
trates the Professor, without explaining the diffi- 
culty that he had encountered, simply stated that 
upon analysis he had discovered arsenic. The re- 
maining portion of the contents of the bottle was 


10 ORIGIN OF THE ERROR. 


preserved,’ and being subjected to a different test, 
turned out to contain no arsenic whatever, but was 
a bottle composed of chlorate of potash, and Pro- 
fessor Taylor ultimately found out that the arsenic 
he had discovered after so many trials had actually 
emanated from his own copper gauze, which had 
been dissolved in the early experiments. 

Although really the arsenic and antimony that 
had undoubtedly been discovered in the body ren- 
dered it immaterial whether any was contained in 
this particular bottle, there can be no doubt that 
so terrible an oversight on the part of a man of 
creat eminence was calculated to affect public 
opinion, and lead it to cast discredit upon the 
whole of the scientific testimony produced, and I 
have now to relate an incident in connection with 
it which will, I think, throw some light upon the 
origin of this most serious mistake. 

A physician now of great eminence, who was 
present when the vomit was analysed, and who 
gave evidence upon the subject of dysentery, of 
which he had obtained much experience in the 
Crimean campaign, forwarded to the solicitor who 
was conducting the prosecution a number of the 
‘Lancet,’ containing a letter from the prisoner, 
written some seven or eight years before, upon the 


1 T well remember that upon the inquest the person suspected 
showed great anxiety that this should be done. 


UNSATISFACTORY TESTS. ae 


extraction of teeth, and in this number, and upon 
the opposite page to that which contained his 
letter, was one of a series of lectures by an | 
eminent chemist on the detection of arsenic, in 
which it was stated that wherever chlorates were 
used Reinsch’s test would invariably be defeated. 
It was probably perfectly known to the prisoner 
that this test had been usually applied by Dr. Tay- 
lor, and I have never been able to make up my 
mind whether there was really any poison in the 
bottle, or whether it was a contrivance which had 
been arranged for the purpose during the inter- 
val between the prisoner’s first and second appre- 
hensions, with a view to the result that occurred ; 
but, whatever was the intention, it undoubtedly 
saved his life. 

It is due to the memory of Dr. Taylor to state 
that a doubt crossing his own mind led to the dis- 
covery of the mistake which was disclosed upon 
the trial, and did not really affect the weight of 
the evidence, or apparently the minds of the 
jury, it being shown that it would not affect the 
analyses of the vomit and intestines. It may not 
be altogether satisfactory to mankind to mention 
that Doctor Taylor wrote to several of the most 
eminent chemists to obtain specimens of the gauze 
used by them in their experiments, and that it 
was in every instance found impregnated in the 


12 LETTER IN THE ‘ LANCET.’ 


same way. The difficulty that presents itself to 
my thoughts is, why the presence of the chlorate 
was not ascertained before the test was applied. 

It is a pregnant example, however, of what I 
have been so anxious to enforce—that the specula- 
tions of scientific men, however eminent, ought 
never to be made the basis of acase. They may and 
constantly do materially assist it. In the instances 
of Palmer and many others they were so far 
auxiliary to the other evidence that they showed 
it to be perfectly consistent with the natural con- 
clusion that the facts themselves had presented 
to all reasoning minds. 

The solicitor of the deceased was indefatigable 
in his exertions in the conduct of this case. His 
sympathies and indignation were both roused, and 
it occurred to him, in looking at the letter of the 
prisoner in the ‘ Lancet,’ to see where it was dated 
from, and he found that it was dated from a street 
in the West End, where the prisoner was living 
with his wife, and practising as a doctor. His 
brother carried on business as a chemist in an 
adjacent street. They both left somewhat sud- 
denly, after an event upon which the subsequent 
history throws a somewhat ghastly light. 

A gentleman named G 


, thirty-three years 
old, accompanied by his wife, a young lady possess- 
ing some attractions, came to lodge at the brother’s 


CURIOUS STATEMENT. 13 


house, and shortly afterwards was taken ill; he was 
attended only by the prisoner, the drugs being 
supplied by his brother. None of the invalid’s 
family saw him, and some of them were refused 
admittance. He died, and shortly after both 
brothers disappeared from the neighbourhood, as 
also did the widow. The certificate of his death de- 
scribed it as resulting from disease of the kidneys. 
No medical man’s name is attached. The applica- 
tion of arsenic would produce symptoms that might 
be mistaken for this disease. No investigation seems 
to have taken place, and nothing was heard of the 
poor fellow’s wife until between the period of the 
two trials of the prisoner, when the solicitor re- 
ceived an extraordinary communication through an 
equally curious channel. A lady sitting in the 
gallery during the first trial made some remark to 
-a neighbour favourable to the prisoner, when that 
person said, ‘ Oh, he is guilty; heis one of a gang 
of poisoners.’ 

The lady asked what she meant, and received 
a statement and also the person’s name and address, 
which she communicated, and an officer was sent 
to make inquiries. 

She turned out to be the widow of a sergeant 
and quartermaster in the army, and she furnished 
a long statement, which it is not necessary for me 
to set out in eatenso. The important part of it 


14 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. 


was, that she was residing with her husband in 
a house at Brompton, that the prisoner’s brother 
was living next door, that the prisoner was con- 
stantly there, and that a lady calling herself 
Mrs. G- 
witness stated that, about three years before, this 


was living in the same house. The 


lady had come into her house in a highly excited 
state, and said that the prisoner had been trying 
to force her to make a will in his favour, and 
made further statements indicating a belief that 
she should be poisoned if she did. 


The witness saw Mrs. G upon other occa- 
sions; once the servant fetched her when she was 
in a fit, and a doctor was also present. The patient 
nade statements about the prisoner that showed 
she was in great apprehension as to the food she 


was taking. Mrs. G appeared to be about 


forty years of age. 

On the 9th of December preceding the marriage 
the same witness saw the prisoner with another 
lady, who, from the description, was probably 
Miss Hills. The foregomg statement was made to 
| Sergeant MacIntyre, a police constable, and, 
whether the conclusions of the witness were cor- 
rect or not, there seems but little doubt that Mrs. 
G 
former patient. 

I think also that it will be admitted that if 


must have been the widow of the prisoner’s 


NEED OF APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. 15 


the circumstances | have related be substantially 
correct, they show that through a variety of un- 
fortunate causes the case must be regarded as 
_ exhibiting a most lamentable result. 

I have already mentioned that a strong contest 
went on in the press upon the result of the trial, 
and representations, some of which were certainly 
untrue, were made to the Home Secretary. The facts 
were of such a peculiar character that the whole 
of them should be taken together to enable a sound 
conclusion to bearrived at. Itis simply impossible 
that this can be done without ordinary legal ma- 
chinery. Every lawyer knows that in civil cases 
a rule for a new trial is constantly granted until 
light is thrown upon the facts by those opposing it. 
In criminal cases no power exists for such a pur- 
pose. The scheme of a Court of Appeal frightens 
our Legislature, but justice demands it, and [believe 
that it might be effected with both ease and benefit. 
I was well acquainted with the leading physician in 
the case, who was certainly one of the foremost 
men in his profession. He never swerved for a 
moment in his conviction that the unfortunate 
woman was poisoned; and I fancy that he agreed 
with Brodie and other eminent medical men, that 
an experienced eye witnessing a death-bed can 
scarcely be mistaken as to the signs presented if 
poison has been administered. 


16 


CHAPTER II. 


THE PELLIZZIONI TRIAL. 


Durine the year 1864 a trial took place at the © 


Central Criminal Court which presents features 
worthy for more reasons than one to be recorded. 
In the first place, the life of a perfectly innocent 
man was placed in jeopardy, and in the next the 
course pursued by the police deserves attention 
and calls for remark. 

It appeared that upon the 26th of December in 
the previous year a serious disturbance had taken 
place in a public-house situated. on Saffron Hill, 
Clerkenwell. This locality was at the time inha- 
bited by the humbler class of Italians, and a 
squabble arose between them and some Englishmen 
of the neighbourhood, resulting in the death of a 
man named Harrington, who was mortally wounded, 
and in serious injury to another man of the name 
of Rebbeck. 

In both cases the injuries inflicted were by some 
sharp instrument, and in all probability by the 
same one. An Italian named Pellizzioni was found 
lying upon the body of the deceased man, and was 


MR. BARON MARTIN. Ai; 


then seized by the police, who naturally inferred that 
‘he was the perpetrator of the acts. He, however, 
declared that he had only come in after they were 
committed, was endeavouring to quell the disturb- 
ance, and in the scuffle still going on was thrown 
upon the body of Harrington, who was not quite 
dead. No weapon of any kind was found near 
the spot. After some examinations at the police 
court Pellizzioni was committed for trial, and tried 
before Mr. Baron Martin upon the charge of wilful 
murder. : 

This learned judge had been a very successful 
advocate upon the Northern Circuit, where, how- 
ever, he had not had any experience in the 
criminal courts, and although essentially humane 
and kind-hearted, was hasty in formine opinions, 
and slow in changing them; and it was obvious 
that very early in the case he took a strong view 
against the prisoner, and summing up in accord- 
ance with it, a verdict of guilty was pronounced. 
Sentence of death was passed, the judge stating in 


the course of it that ‘he had never known more 


direct or conclusive evidence in any case.’ It 
would serve no useful purpose to discuss the testi- 
mony given by the various witnesses called, and 


I shall dismiss the question with this remark— 


| that it was extremely conflicting, and there must 
| have existed upon one side or the other very gross 
| Oo 

| VOL. II. C 


18 DOUBT AS TO PELLIZZION’S GUILT. 


perjury. Several policemen were called and were 
examined at great leneth. No knife was produced 
or alluded to on the part of the prosecution. 

The conviction of Pellizzioni produced a great 
sensation in the neighbourhood where he resided, 
and where he bore the character of a singularly 
inoffensive man, and those who had known him en- 
tertained a very different opmion from Mr. Baron 
Martin, and a shrewd suspicion, if not a certainty, 
existed amongst them as to who the culprit really 
was. Doubts were ventilated through the columns. 
of the ‘Daily Telegraph, and the proprietors of 
that journal took a strong personal interest in the 
matter. Mr. Negretti, the well-known optician, 
who was also a countryman of the convict, was 
indefatigable in his behalf, and ultimately the 
force of public opinion in the neighbourhood, and 
the interference of a Catholic priest, induced a man 
named Gregorio Mogni to confess that he was the 
person who had committed the crime, although, 
as he alleged, in self-defence. 

Mogni was committed and tried at the following 
sessions of the Central Court upon a charge of man- 
slaughter. It fell to the lot of Mr. Justice Byles to 
try the case. This learned judge possessed great 
acuteness, but showed very clearly that he was 
influenced by the strong view previously taken by 
Mr. Baron Martin. 


CONFESSION OF MOGNI. 19 


‘I was instructed by the friends of Pellizzioni to 
prosecute, and Mr. Montagu Williams, upon very 
slight materials, and with very great ability, de- 
fended. Mogni was convicted, nor can I see how 
any other result could have been arrived at. This, 
however, brought about a very peculiar state of 
things, as there were two men now lying in New- 
gate convicted of the samecrime. In the one case 
the judge had declared that he had no doubt of 
Pellizzioni’s guilt; in the other Mogni, who could 


not be mistaken, declared that he alone committed 


- the crime. Fortunately for the ends of justice, 


whoever killed Harrington also stabbed Rebbeck, 
and so, to solve the difficulty, the Government put 
Pellizzioni through the ordeal of a trial for this 
latter offence, and Mr. Giffard prosecuted on their 
behalf, which ensured the certainty that the evi- 
dence would be fully sifted. The case occupied 
some time, I forget how long, and Mogni was 
called, and adhered to his confession. He was 
cross-examined very rigidly, but in the end the 


jury without hesitation acquitted the prisoner ; 


and I do not entertain the shghtest doubt that he 
was perfectly innocent, and very unpleasantly for 


‘himself, and at the risk of his neck, illustrated the — 


old lines commencing, ‘Those who in quarrels | 


interpose.’ It is, however, very seldom that a 


man who has engaged solely in the endeavour to 
2 


20 FINDING OF KNIFE. 


prevent strife has been placed in such jeopardy, 
and it is worthy of consideration to what this 
can fairly be attributed; I believe it arose from : 
the haste and impetuosity with which the police first 
adopted a conclusion, and afterwards adhered to 
it, although they were well aware of circumstances 
that strongly militated against its correctness. 

It will be remembered that upon the first trial 
no weapon was produced or alluded to on the 
part of the prosecution, though it will scarcely be 
credited that the knife with which both injuries 
were inflicted had been for some time before in the 
hands of the police. This fact was not brought 
before those who conducted the prosecution, nor 
before the jury who tried the case, and it is diffi- 
cult to find satisfactory reasons for this conceal- 
ment. The knife had been found at some distance 
from the spot where the crime had been committed, 
and could not have been conveyed there by Pel- 
lizzioni. It was known throughout the neighbour- 
hood that it was Mogni’s knife, and it is difficult 
to believe that the police alone were ignorant of 
this fact. 

Upon the subsequent trials it was produced, 
and identified by Mogni. He had, after stabbing 
the two men, handed it to a fellow-countryman 
named Cetti, who had thrown it into an out-of-the- 
way place, where it was subsequently found. 


EVIDENCE OF POLICE. 21 


The public-house in which the occurrence took 
_ place was evidently of a very low description, and 
the witnesses called upon the trial were not unlikely 
to be influenced by the opinion of the police. The 
police had the practical management of the prose- 
cution before it came into court; and I have felt 
that in calling attention to its remarkable details 
I am performing a useful duty to society. 

It must be borne in mind that very few in the 
position of Pellizzioni wouid be likely to receive 
the aid of a powerful journal, or obtain the sym- 
pathy and assistance of influential friends. 

Upon the original trial certain deathbed state- 


ments made by Harrington, when in extremis, 
were sworn to by a policeman, which inculpated 
the prisoner, and which were said to be taken 
down by another constable. This circumstance 
doubtless was instrumental in obtaming the first 
verdict, but through the conduct exhibited by these 
witnesses it was entirely discredited by the juries 
upon the two subsequent investigations. 

A short time after the acquittal of Pellizzioni 
I received a visit from the Marquis D’Azeglio, the 
Sardinian Minister, who was instructed to convey 
to me the thanks of his Government for my exer- 
tions inthecase. This was the means of my forming 
a most agreeable acquaintance. The Marquis was 
very popular in English society, and I met him 


2 MARQUIS D’AZEGLIO. 


occasionally in London, and subsequently at Hom- 
burg, where, through his introduction, I passed, 
many pleasant hours. 

I understood from him that the services ren- 
dered to Pellizzioni in this country had been very 
warmly appreciated in his own.. I believe that the 
Marquis died not very long after [had the pleasure 
of knowing him, and if so it must have been in the 
prime of life. | 

It is manifest that in all investigations in 
criminal matters the police must form avery mate- 
rial element, and the correctness of the result must 
ereatly depend upon their truth and accuracy. It 
is therefore most important that those who preside 
upon such inquiries should understand the charac- 
teristics of the body, and know something of their 
organisations. I fear that without such knowledge 
very serious mischances, and perhaps fatal ones, 
are likely to arise. J have had constant oppor- 
tunities of forming a judgment, and my remarks 
are not founded upon any prejudice against a 
necessary, and in many respects trustworthy, body 
of men; but from the conclusions that my ex- 
perience has forced upon me, I am obliged to say 
that the evidence given by the police ought to be 
viewed with a considerable amount of caution. 

Wherever men are associated in a common 
object, as in their case, an esprit de corps naturally 


. 
: 


POLICE TESTIMONY. 5 ata 


arises, and this not unfrequently colours the testi- 
mony of individual members. ‘Their duties are ex- 
tremely tryme and calculated frequently to cause 
anger and irritation, feelings which almost invari- 
ably induce those possessed by them to exaggerate 
if not to invent. The classes against whom they 
appear are usually without the position that com- 


mands consideration, and consequently statements 


made to their prejudice meet with the more ready 
belief. ; 

The feeling of sanctity that probably once 
attached to an oath becomes deadened in the 
minds of those who are taking it every day, and 
an easy manner and composed demeanour are 
acquired by persons constantly in the witness-box. 
There exists a very bad habit in the force, of com- 
municating their opinions at the outset of an 
inquiry, thus pledging themselves to views which 
it is damaging to their sagacity to retract. The 
Pellizzioni case furnishes an example of the evil 
arising from this habit. Everybody knows. that 
“an experienced and intelligent officer has, with 
his accustomed acuteness, secured the murderer, 
&c.; and in this case the police did not like pub- 
lishing the fact that they had committed a flagrant 
blunder, and so an innocent man was very nearly 
being executed. On the other hand, in many cases 


where constables have discharged their duties in a 


24 CHARACTER OF POLICE. 


most exemplary manner, and may have been either 
disabled. or killed, I cannot think that their ser- 
vices are sufficiently considered, or properly 
rewarded ; and, as I have said in a former portion 
of these pages, I do not think that nearly sufficient 
protection is thrown around them by adequate 
punishments being meted out to those from whom 
they have been subjected to serious injuries. In 
the earlier days of their existence they were very 
unpopular, and it was only natural that the 
Executive should use every effort to support them, 
and magistrates were censured occasionally for 
the views they took in certain cases against mem- 
bers of the force. Now, however, I am sure that 
as efficient a control as is possible is exercised 
by the Commissioners, and the magistrates per- 
form their duties without dread of the Home 
Secretary, formerly a feeling not wholly without 
justification. As far as my observation has en- 
abled me to form a judgement, the police pre- 
serve order in the streets with good temper and 
firmness. 

The preceding reflections are made in no unkind 
or unfriendly spirit, but now especially, when judges 
who have never been inside a criminal court are 
called upon to preside in trials where the issues 
possibly involve the life of a human being, and 


where the police perhaps are material witnesses, my 


ALLEGED FALSE CHARGE. 25 


observations may not be altogether out of place 
or unworthy of consideration. | 

IT am unable to furnish the date of the follow- 
ing case, in which I was engaged on the part of 
the defendant, a policeman ; it was, however, after 
the trials of which I have in the last chapter given 
an account. In relating the circumstances I shall 
not express any belief as to the truth or falsehood 
of the charge made, but the view taken by the 
jury justifies me in quoting it as an illustration of 
some of the observations that I have presented to 
the reader. | 

In acertain district in St. John’s Wood, shortly 
before the case I am recording, a number of 
burglaries had occurred, and great indignation had 
been expressed at the supineness of the police, not 
unaccompanied by insinuations of a graver kind. 
_ Two young men, of perfect respectability as 
far as appeared from evidence that was adduced, 
were walking on their way home somewhat late 
one night in the neighbourhood which had been 
the scene of the burglaries, and, according to their 
own account, they had done nothing that was calcu- 
lated to excite suspicion, nor had anything upon 
their persons unusual for respectable people to 
possess. To their astonishment they were seized 
by three policemen, and charged with attempting 
to break into a house. 


26 PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY. 


The three officers declared that they had 
watched them, and caught them in the act, and 
had actually taken from them the implements of 
burglary. | 

It is obvious that, if the young men told the 
truth, one of the most wicked cases of conspiracy 
ever known had been planned by the police, and 
was carried out by flagrant perjury. 

The accused were discharged, and they, in 
their turn, prosecuted the three officers at the 
Central Court. The cases stood for trial before 
the Recorder, Mr. Russell Gurney, whose name 
I have previously mentioned, and who, whilst 
thoroughly impartial, was rather inclined to the 
side of authority than otherwise. 

The charges were for perjury, and it is right 
that I should mention, for the benefit of the 
general reader, that only one person can be in- 
cluded in an indictment for that particular offence. 

This being so, the defendant charged was able 


to call, and did call, his two companions. ‘The 


case was very ably conducted by Mr. Serjeant - 


Sleigh, and he had the advantage, not on such an 
occasion a small one, of a reply. <A very clear 
summing-up followed, and the jury, after some 
deliberation, convicted the accused. 

It will be quite understood that I express no 
opinion as to the correctness or the reverse of this 


: 


CONVICTION. Paid 


verdict. I thought, however, that it was of such 
very grave importance that I advised that the two 
remaining indictments should be removed into the 
Court of Queen’s Bench, which was accordingly 
done, and the sentence upon the person already 
tried was postponed until the result of the further 
investigations. These were not, however, proceeded 
with ; no public prosecutor existing at the time, 
and it is likely that the expense deterred the young 
men, who had sufficiently vindicated their charac- 
ters, from proceeding any further in the matter. 


28 


CHAPTER ITI. 


STATE OF REGENT STREET. 


Nor agreat many years ago—it was during the time 
that a valued friend of mine, and most excellent 
magistrate, presided at the Marlborough Street 
Police Court—a number of cases were investigated 
involving very serious charges against the police 
stationed in that district, and I am able myself to 
testify that to some extent, at all events, they were 
well founded. 

Regent Street and the surrounding localities 
were frequented by women carrying on a miserable 
callme. The Quadrant especially was rendered 
almost impassable for decent people. The shop- 
keepers were up in arms, and bitter complaints 
were raised against the negligence of the officers. 
The inquiries, however, set on foot fully explained 
the reason of this. The constables upon the beat 
were in the pay of the worst and most trouble- 
some of those who infested the streets, in con- 
sideration for which they allowed them to annoy 
the passengers with impunity; whilst those who 
were quiet and inoffensive had black mail levied 


MR. KNOX. 29 


upon them by the most tyrannical and cruel means. 
If they refused to pay, they were taken into cus- 
_tody, had to pass the might in a wretched cell, 
were the next morning charged with annoying 
people and obstructing the footway, and although 
I know that Mr. Knox, having grave suspicions of 
the motives of the officers, threw what protection 
he could over the accused, a fine was often im- 
posed, and further imprisonment followed in con- 
sequence of its non-payment. The wretched victims 

learned prudence, and obtained the necessary licence , 
to pursue their unhappy trade. I have seen upon 
several occasions a female, of the class alluded to, 
place upon a post or window-sill a piece of money, 
and a policeman come up and remove it. At last 
the scandal attained such large dimensions that 
it became necessary to transplant the entire divi- 
sion to some other district. Ihave no means of 
following their career. They had probably to 
bemoan amongst the savages of the East the hal- 
cyon days they had enjoyed in the advanced 
civilisation of their former service. The resigna- 
tion of Mr. Knox consequent upon his illness was 
a great loss to the public. He was a most con- 
scientious and painstaking magistrate, but unfortu- 
nately he allowed his anxiety to do justice to prey 
upon a very impressible disposition, and ultimately 
to affect his health. I have had many conversa- 


30 AMUSING ADVENTURE. 


tions with him on the subject I am now dwelling 
upon, and I believe that he fully shared the opinion 
I have expressed as to the necessity of great caution 
in dealing with police testimony. 

T will now relate an amusing adventure of my 
own which bears upon the subject.. One night 


late—it might be early morning—I was in Picca- 


dilly, and, attracted by a gathering of people, I 
came upon a policeman struggling with a drunken, 


powerful woman. She had either fallen or been 
thrown down, and he had fallen upon her. ‘There 
were expressions of indignation being uttered by 
the persons around, and a row seemed imminent. 
I touched the officer hehtly upon the shoulder, 
saying, ‘ Why do you not spring your rattle? You 
will hurt the woman.’ He jumped up, and, seiz- 
ing me by the collar, said, ‘I take you into cus- 
tody for obstructing me in the execution of my 
duty. I remained perfectly passive, and in the 
meanwhile another constable had come up and 
had seized the woman, whom he was handling very 
roughly. At thismoment Sir Alexander Cockburn, 
then Attorney-General, who was returning from the 
House of Commons, appeared upon the scene, and 
seeing a woman, as he thought, ill-used, remon- 
strated in indignant language with the officer, upon 
which the constable who had hold of me stretched 


out his other arm—whether reaching Sir Alexander 


SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN. 31 


or not I could not see 


and said, ‘ I arrest you also.’ 
-*Arrest me,’ exclaimed the astonished Attorney- 
General; ‘what for?’ ‘Oh,’ said my captor, ‘ for: 
many things. You are well known to the police.’ 
I cannot surmise what might have become of us. 
Possibly we should have spent the night in com- 
pany with the very objectionable female on whose 
behalf we had interfered. Some people, however, 
fortunately recognised us, and we were released. 
I took the numbers of the officers, and, being de- 
termined to see the end of the affair, went next 
morning to the court where the charge ought to 
have been made, and heard that the woman had 
effected her escape, which, considering I had left 
her in charge of half-a-dozen officers, and that she 
was very drunk, was a remarkable feat of prowess. 

With the concurrence of Sir Alexander Cock- 
burn, I wrote a full account to Mr. Mayne (I for- 
get whether at that time he was knighted), and 
after a day or two received an answer from some 
subordinate, treating my letter with great coolness, 
and saying that if I had any complaint to make I 
might go before a magistrate. To this communi- 
cation I replied by a private note to the Commis- 
sioner to the effect that I should select my own 
mode of ventilating the matter. A very courteous 
reply, promising thorough inquiry, resulted from 


this further step. 


oe, HIGH-HANDED PROCEEDING. 


I never heard anything more about it, and am 
sorry to say was not patriotic enough to take any 
further trouble in the matter. 

There was one circumstance that struck me as 
of serious import. In the middle of the disturb- 
ance a tall man dressed in military apparel, and 
who certainly had not been present at the com- 
mencement, walked up and, addressing himself to 
the officer, said, ‘I have seen everything. You 
are quite in the right. I am ready to give evi- 
dence. Here is my card.’ Independent witnesses 
of this description are a dangerous addition to 
police testimony. 

The following is an instance of the somewhat 
high-handed proceedings of the Home Office in the 
early days after the institution of the new police. 
There was avery worthy but not very wise ma- 
gistrate who presided at Bow Street. He had been 
suilty of many eccentricities, but had escaped 
censure. It so happened that a constable was 
charged before him with taking bribes from the 
keepers of disorderly houses to induce him to sup- 
press warrants entrusted to him to serve. I was 
instructed by the parish authorities to prosecute. 
There never was a clearer case, and as it was 
stated that it was by no means an isolated one, the 
sentence of a month’s imprisonment was by no 
means too severe. Long, however, before this 


PROCEEDINGS OF POLICE. 33 


term had expired, the officer was performing his 
duties as usual, and the magistrate received an in- 
timation that his retirement would be accepted, 
and his valuable services rewarded with a pension. 

I lave already stated that, in my opinion, | 
there is far too much publicity permitted by the 
police in connection with their proceedings ; and 
with very great respect to the authorities at Scot- 
land Yard, and especially so to a gentleman at the 
head of the detective department, with whom I 
have the pleasure of being upon terms of intimacy, 
and whose intelligence and industry I fully appre- 
ciate, I cannot think that the system pursued is a 
good one for the detection of crime and the dis- 
covery of offenders. 

The publicity, rather encouraged than checked, 
tends to defeat the chances of success. It is known 
from one end of the kingdom to the other who 
are the officers having the charge of a particular 
inquiry, and the amount of information that they 
possess is blazoned forth; whilst the system of 
reporting the different steps taken to a central office 
produces delay which may be very prejudicial. 

The old Bow Street runners did not inform the 
criminals whom they wanted to catch with what 
their trap was baited, and where it was to be laid, 
nor did they waste valuable time in making re- 
ports. They did not let the public know all that 

VOL. Il. D 


34 CORONERS COURTS. 


they knew themselves, but they arrived at a con- 
clusion from their own experience, and worked it 
out in silence and secrecy. I do not think that a 
detective in those days would have been guilty of 
the piece of flagrant absurdity that was exhibited 
but recently in the case of the murder com- 
mitted upon Kingston Hill, when it was published 
to the entire world that the police possessed no 
clue, and that the murdered man had died without 
giving any information ; by this means destroying 
certainly one chance of discovering the criminal 
through the instrumentality of a possible accom- 
plice, who, if he had not been assured of his safety, 
might have made a confession. I suspect that old 
officers, if they had opened their mouths at all, 
would have been guilty of the pious fraud of say- 
ing, ‘ that they had obtained a full description of 
the murderer.’ 

The police also must frequently be much em- 
barrassed by the proceedings of coroners’ courts. 
These are often conducted by incompetent officers, 
at some low pothouse, where all the gossip of the 
neighbourhood finds vent, and where the informa- 
tion obtained is blurted out, and probably read 
with keen amusement by the offender who is wanted, 
and who thus learns how to keep out of the way. 
Secrecy and rapidity are two elements most essen- 
tial for waging a successful war against the criminal 


ae ee 


EXECUTION DOCK. 35 


classes, and they happen to be the very ones most 
remarkable for their absence. 

For two or three years previously to my call 
to the bar I resided with my father at the official 
residence of the Thames police at Wapping. He 
had removed there upon the death of Captain 
Richbell, who had previously occupied it. The 
entrance to it was from a narrow street called Old 
Gravel Lane. Its frontage, which still exists, looks 
out upon the river opposite to Rotherhithe. Here, 
but shortly before, existed Execution Dock, where 
the bodies of pirates might be seen dangling, hung 
in chains. The house abutted upon ‘ Wapping Old 
Stairs,’ so it had some claim to poetry, and the 
neighbourhood was not without society, Messrs. 
Hodgson and Abbott, the brewers, residing within 
a few doors of the house occupied by my father. 
The former gentleman was better known by the 
name of ‘ Brown Stout.’ I believe they were the 
first exporters of bitter ale to India. My father 
was now the senior magistrate, and upon him de- 
volved the organisation and management of the 
police attached to the office. I have in a former 
chapter referred to this body; their duties were ~ 
confined to the river, and to the localities adjacent 
to its shores. These included districts mhabited 
by very lawless classes, and as I frequently accom- 
panied the officers whilst upon duty, | had many 

D2 


56 THE THAMES POLICE. 


opportunities of witnessing their conduct, and the ~ 


power they possessed was considerable. I have 
seen the most serious disturbances quelled in a few 
minutes by the presence of two or three of them, 
and I do not remember any occasion when they 
received serious injury. They knew the localities 
well, and the character of the people who inhabited 


them, and were thus enabled to trace offenders with — 


very marked success. They were well and kindly 
managed by my father, who possessed great influ- 
ence over them, and they always resorted to him 
in cases of difficulty. Their discipline, although 
strict, gave them much independence, which cer- 
tainly was of service when speedy action was re- 
quired. I have often thought that officers organised 
upon a similar system, and attached to the different 
police courts of the metropolis, would be a most 
useful instrument both for the repression and 
detection of crime. 

The districts over which my father’s jurisdic- 
tion extended included streets and alleys inhabited 
by a class very difficult to manage. Inish and Jews 
of the humblest rank occupied the wretched dwel- 
lings of which they were composed, and the feuds 
between the two races often ended in squabbles 
that attained formidable dimensions. My father, 
after a time, was looked up to by the rival parties, 
and succeeded in creating a much more peaceful 


en ie eee We ee nent 


JEWS AND IRISH. oe 


state of things. In his efforts he was greatly aided 
by the rabbi and Catholic priest of the neighbour- 
hood, with both of whom he had established a firm 
alliance. 

He had a very high opinion of the social quali- 
ties of the Jews, and of their humanity and charity 
amongst themselves, and he found the Irish ex- 
tremely amenable to kind treatment. 

There was a man who frequently figured in the 
court during my early days at the bar, a short, 
dark, repulsive-looking fellow of the name of Aaron 
Smith, and his history was a very extraordinary 
one. He had been brought before my father 
charged with piracy, and there was no doubt that 
he had been one of a crew on board a pirate vessel. 
They had boarded a Dutch merchant ship amongst — 
others, and been guilty of great brutality. He 
declared that he had been taken prisoner by the 
pirates, and acted under compulsion, and this state- 
ment was probably true. At all events, he was 
acquitted both in Holland and in this country, 
and flourished as a money-lender for many years 
after. 

The time came when all was changed in con- 
nection with my father’s jurisdiction. The new 
police was created, and the officers attached to 
the Thames became amalgamated with that body. 
The office became a court, and the business was 


38 SMOKE NUISANCE, 


removed to Arbour Square, Stepney. The duties 
of the magistrate became simply judicial. 

My father certainly distrusted the evidence 
given by certain members of the new force, and 
considered that they occasionally exhibited unne- 
cessary harshness, and I can well imagine that he 
was not looked upon favourably by the authorities 
at the Home Office, in consequence of the expression 
of some of his views. He was also involved in a 
discussion in connection with the smoke nuisance, 
in which his decisions differed from their wishes 
upon the subject. They sent him an opinion of 
the Attorney-General, almost ordering him to be 
governed by it. He, however, adhered to his own 
construction of the law. He was too generally re- 
spected to be treated with overt indignity, but 
when he urged his claim to be removed to a more 
agreeable district, he was met with the doubtful 
compliment that he was too useful in his present 
position. At this time he resided in Cadogan Place, 
and the fatigue attendant upon reaching his place 
of business, added to other causes, obliged him to 
resign his office. | 

From all I hear, nothing can exceed the cordial 
relations that now exist between the magistracy 
and the executive, but, considering that the body 
out of which the former are chosen is the same as 
that from which the judges are selected, I cannot 


INDEPENDENCE OF MAGISTRATES. 39 


help thinking that they should be put upon the 
same footing. There seems certainly no reason 
why a distinction should exist between their status 
and that of the gentlemen filling the office of 
county court judges, and it is only in accordance 
with constitutional principle that those who exercise 
judicial functions should be independent of official 
control. 


40 


CHAPTER IV. 


ELECTION COMMITTEES. , 


Tue practice before Parliamentary committees, 


although open to the entire bar, had been pretty 
much confined to a select few, who devoted them- 
selves entirely to it. Previously, however, to the 
time to which I wish to direct attention, many 
eminent outsiders had conducted some of the more 
important inquiries. Coppock, one of the acutest 
of Parliamentary agents, had secured the services 
of Cockburn, whose qualities smegularly fitted him 
for this description of business, and Thesiger and 
Austin found in him a formidable opponent. Edwin 
James also possessed all the qualities necessary for 
the work. He had great readiness, handled his 
facts amusingly but with considerable force, and 
was never tedious. He was an excellent Nisi Prius 
leader, and, although not possessed of any remark- 
able knowledge of law or profound scholarship, 
contrived to manage Lord Campbell better than 


any of his rivals at the bar. In 1867, the: year 


after a general election, all those whose names I 
have mentioned had quitted the arena, and I was 


2 


MESSRS. HARRISON AND JOY. 41 


retained in several of the contested cases. It was 
the last year that the House of Commons exercised 
this jurisdiction, which, as is well known, was sub- 
sequently relegated to the Common Law judges. 
The ground for this change was the supposition 
that the inquiries before committees resulted too 
often in decisions founded less upon the facts than 
the composition of the tribunal ; and this certainly 
had been the case in former years. The politics of 
the majority were more considered by litigants than 
the evidence to be adduced; and if a member, 
under the unusual influence of conscientious feel-_ 
ing, voted against his party he was looked upon as 
little better than a traitor. It is extremely amusing 
to look back to some of the old trials. .Two gen- 
tlemen, named Harrison and Joy, seemed to possess 
the greatest favour with the public, and their mode 
of doing business had at least the merit of origin- 
ality. A decision could almost always be found 
for propositions however absurd, and the argu- 
ments of the counsel for the respective parties 
seemed to consist in pelting each other and the 
committee with cases; and it would have been 
strange indeed if the predetermination of the 
majority was not able to find some authority to 
justify it. A-story is told of Harrison that he kept 
a kind of vade mecum, in which he entered up the 


different decisions of committees, and that upon 


42 HENRY ALLWORTH MEREWETHER. 


one occasion having quoted several in support of 
the view for which he was contending, he imad- 
vertently left the book upon the table. His adver- 
sary picked it up and found, upon an opposite 
page to that which had been referred to, all the 
authorities on the other side, which he quoted in 
answer, much to Harrison’s discomfiture, who, it is 
needless to say, never afterwards lost sight of his 
valuable companion. 

Mr. Serjeant Merewether, who afterwards be 
came Town Clerk of London, had considerable busi- 
ness in Parliament; and his son, Henry Allworth 
Merewether, an old friend of mine, was a deserv- 
edly successful practitioner. This gentleman was 
a very agreeable companion, and one of the most 
popular members of the Garrick Club. He did 
not lke election petitions, and confined himself 
latterly to private Bills, in which branch of Par- 
hamentary business he was opposed to Hope, Scott, 
Beckett, Denison, Rodwell, and others of lke 
calibre, and must have been a man of considerable 
ability to hold his own, as he did for many years, 
against such opponents. 

It is worthy of remark that for a few years 
previous to 1867, and very notably during that 
year, a creat change of feeling exhibited itself in 
the election committees. Members had begun to 
_ look upon the obligation that they undertook from 


BRIBERY. AZ 


a more serious point of view than they had done 
heretofore; a higher quality of advocacy had 
made itself felt; and there can be no doubt that 
strong and independent counsel do materially 
colour the proceedings of tribunals before which 
they practise. Moreover, public opinion began to 
assert itself, and indignation was felt that partisan 
erounds should govern judicial proceedings. These 
elements combined gradually produced a result 
which plainly developed itself in the proceedings 
before committees in this year of 1867. I was, as 
I have mentioned already, in many of the contested 
cases, and had opportunities of forming an opinion 
about most of the others, and also of hearing the 
remarks of very good judges upon the subject ; 
and I have no hesitation whatever in saying that, 
in every instance, there was exhibited not only the 
qualities most calculated to elicit truth, but the 
most conscientious adherence to strict impartiality. 

The tribunals were extremely pleasant to prac- 
tise before, and the members that constituted them 
certainly were very competent to judge of the facts, 
having had their own experiences to be guided by, 
and within my observation an excellent feeling pre- 
vailed between them and counsel. I do not think 
that there existed so holy a horror for bribery as 
ought to affect well-regulated minds; in fact, the 
war waged against Parliamentary corruption does 


44 PROSECUTIONS. 


not seem to have attained either practical or moral 
success, and an ordinarily acute observer must 
come to the conclusion that the virtuous denuncia- 
tions he hears are in most instances mere shams. 
There is no force of public opinion honestly 
brought to bear against it. I should be glad to 
know whether the gentry in the neighbourhood 
have ever withdrawn their custom froma tradesman 
found guilty of accepting bribes, or whether any 
gentleman has been excluded from society because 
he has given them. Only during the present year 
I had the honour of being associated with the 
Attorney-General in the prosecution of some 
bribery informations tried at Maidstone. A solici- 
tor, a leading one in the county, was called as 
a witness. He had been obliged to make a clean 
breast of it before the commissioners. He mounted 
the witness-box with a jaunty air, and, with a 
complacent smile upon his countenance, disclosed 
the organised system of bribery of which he had 
been contriver and manager. I doubt whether a 
single chent will take his title-deeds out of this 
gentleman’s possession, or treat him with less 
consideration. Another witness got up, he was 
one of the bribed, and was attended by several of 
his friends and co-bribees—I invent the word for 
the occasion. He gave his evidence in a jocular 


manner, and it was listened to with much _ hilarity 


MR. JUSTICE FITZJAMES STEPHEN. 45 


and evident admiration. Even in the House of 
Commons, where a good deal of verbal indignation 
is ventilated, the true feeling crept out upon a 
recent occasion, when the majority refused to issue 
a commission in a case where, according to public 
rumour, bribery and corruption had been rampant.! 

I do not believe that the ballot will ever be 
effectual to prevent the practice, and, moreover, it 
introduces an additional moral taint. A voter may 
make a solemn promise, take advantage of the 
secrecy to break it, and of course tell lies to pre- 
vent the discovery of his treachery. I do, how- 
ever, think that in charges of intimidation secret 
voting may be of service. 

I noticed an observation made upon the trial of 
one of the bribery informations by a very learned 
judge, and one who takes just views upon most 
subjects, Mr. Justice Fitzjames Stephen, ‘that 
probably the same feeling existed in the minds of 
many people upon the subject of bribery, as did 
upon a former generation upon that of duelling,’ 
and to this I will venture to add, did upon 
Members of Parliament as to the duties imposed 
upon them in election committees. 

My first appearance before a Parliamentary 


1 Whether the punishments recently inflicted upon comparatively 
insignificant personages will produce the desired result, remains to be 
seen. For my part, I suspect that they will be more likely to deter 
future juries from convicting. 


46 MR. LOCKE. 


tribunal was in a petition against the return of Mr, 
Waddington, who was then Chairman of the Eastern 
Counties Railway Company, now the Great Eastern. 
He was a_ personal friend, and entrusted his 
interests to me, although in this branch of business 
I was then quite unknown; I think he had been 
returned for Harwich—the place, however, is not 
material. His colleague was Mr. Locke, one of 
those engineers who have assisted in the marvellous 
change that now governs the world. I succeeded 
in keeping the seat for Waddington, but recollect 
the case less on that account than for the opportu- 
nities it gave me of enjoying Mr. Locke’s society. 
I remember well his simple but graphic details of 
the sensations he experienced when after a tunnel 
had been finished, the supports were first removed ; 
it was impossible to say that some precaution 
might not have been wanting, and that all those 
waiting anxiously for the result might not be 
immolated in one common ruin. How short was 
his span of life, compared to that of other bene- 
factors of our age! He quitted it after he had 
conferred immense benefits, but before he had 
been able. to enjoy the glory that he had so nobly 
earned. 

I conducted, about this period, the petition 
against the sitting member for Bristol. The 
bribery was flagrant, there was really no defence 


TIPPERARY ELECTION PETITION. AT 


attempted, and I consequently succeeded without 
difficulty in unseating the sitting member. 

One of the cases in which during the sittings 
of 1867 I was engaged, and which greatly in- 
terested me, was that against Colonel White for 
Tipperary. He was my client, and also a personal 
friend. He himself was perfectly pure; but the 
supporters of a candidate in an Irish election are 
rarely controlled by the dictates of strict prudence. 
He had been supported by the Catholic priesthood, 
and it was alleged that violence and intimidation 
had prevailed to a considerable extent on the part 
of the Colonel’s supporters. My junior in the case 
was an Irish barrister, whose name, for reasons 
that may be imagined, I forbear to record, and 
I will therefore venture to furnish him with a 
fictitious one. 

One of the witnesses supporting the petition, an 
officer of the Irish constabulary, was detailing a 
scene of violence in which several heads were 
broken and divers misadventures of the same kind 
occurred. He was asked by Mr. Cooke, the 
counsel on the part of the petitioner, who was 
the ringleader, and answered, Mr. O’Finigan ; and 
upon being further questioned who that gentleman 
might be, up rose my junior, and, glaring at the 
counsel who had asked the question, said, ‘I am 
Mr. O’Finigan, and I am not ashamed of my name.’ 


48 ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL. 


I was told that this gentleman intended to chal- 
lenge me for putting upon him a gross insult, viz. 
that I would not allow him to cross-examine 
any of the witnesses. However, I succeeded in 
appeasing his wrath, and under the influence of a 
Greenwich dinner, at which I entertained him, we 
became excellent friends, and he was really a very 
good fellow, though beyond doubt a most enthu- 
siastic partisan. Colonel White had certainly not 
encouraged any illegal proceedings, and the Arch- 
bishop of Cashel, his very warm supporter, had 
used all his influence to prevent them. I do not 
know of any case in which I have been engaged 
in which the decision, which was in favour of my 
client, gave me more sincere satisfaction. On this 
occasion the majority of the committee were op- 
posed in politics to the Colonel. | 

During the time the proceedings were going 
-on I saw a great deal of the Archbishop, who was. 
a very highly cultivated gentleman. I received 
from him many courtesies, and it was with great 
reeret that 1 heard of his death. 

I do not think it would be possible to exag- 
gerate the amount of bribery that was proved in 
the course of these inquiries to have existed. -It 
was confined to no class—tradesmen, the squire- 
archy, the lawyers, and, by no means insignificantly, 
the clergy, all were implicated ; and I cannot for- 


BRISTOL PETITION. - 49 


bear to add that the amount of perjury necessary 
to conceal it was by no means deficient. Even if 
I remembered the details it would furnish neither 
amusement nor instruction to relate them. I 
can, however, recall one case that amused me in- 
tensely. A white-headed old gentleman, the agent 
of one of the parties, was in the witness-box. He 
looked the very embodiment of respectability. He 
was nevertheless subjected to a severe cross-exami- 
nation by the opposite counsel, who suggested that 
he had been a party to distributing bribes. At 
last he turned his venerable face to the committee, 
incipient tears being visible in his eyes, and making 
a most affecting appeal to them, asked, in a voice 
broken by emotion, whether a man who had lived 
all his life in the borough, without a stain upon 
his character, ought to be éxposed to the insult 
of such questions. Whether the committee were 
or were not affected by his appeal I cannot tell, 
but they unseated his employer, and I know that 
the venerable gentleman had actually received 500 
sovereigns, which he had distributed most honour- 
ably ‘in bribing the electors.’ 

There was another petition against the sitting 
member for Bristol during this year, in which I 
was engaged for the petitioner. One of the prin- 
cipal witnesses opposed to me was a physician in 
the borough, a gentleman of high position and 

VOL. II. on i 


50 MR. SERJEANT KINGLAKE. 


character. His appearance and manner were both’ 


creatly in his favour, and I confess that at first I 


looked with doubt upon my instructions that he 


was the main instrument of the bribery that had 


existed, and I consequently proceeded very warily 


to deal with him. It was long before I could get 
at any of the facts, but, after a time, it became 
plain to me that he was prevaricating, and ulti- 
mately this was evident to the committee, who 
over and over again cautioned him. At last, after 
long struggling on in his part, I forced out of him 
adinissions of his thorough culpability, and the 
member was unseated. I refer to this case with 
some feeling of triumph ; it was really an instance 
of the success of those principles I have en- 
deavoured to lay down for cross-examination. I 
could not have proved any of the facts by inde- 
pendent testimony, but I formed a confident and, 
as it turned out, a correct judgment as to the 
complicity of the witness, and worked upon this 
assumption. I hope I may be excused for the 
vanity of recording that this effort met with a 
very high compliment from one of the most distin- 
guished members of my profession. 

Out of this trial, I believe,a case arose at: Bristol 
before the Recorder, Mr. Serjeant Kinglake—a 


very learned lawyer, one of Lord Campbell’s 


degenerates. It was against a solicitor, who, elated 


OBSTINATE JURYMAN. 51 


at the result, had mounted upon a white horse, 
led a mob of people, and celebrated it with much 
noise, to the accompaniment of broken heads and - 
windows. He was indicted for a riot. Collins, 
now leader of the Western Circuit, Montagu 
Williams, and myself were retained for the defence. 
Ribton, an old friend of mine, and a powerful 
advocate, prosecuted, as he did everything, with 
considerable energy and at great leneth. As our 
refreshers were very liberal we reconciled ourselves 
to this latter quality, which was more than rivalled 
by the Recorder. Under the auspices of Mr. Collins 
I saw many of the sights best worth witnessing in 
the town, and as the issue for our client did not 
involve very grave consequences, we passed our 
time agreeably enough. When the jury were im- 
pannelled, I thought I recognised the face of one 
of them, and learnt afterwards that he had been a 
witness before the committee at the House of 
Commons, where I had handled him rather 
roughly. After a vehement reply from Mr. Ribton, 
and a summing-up in which all the constitutional 
questions of the last century and former ones 
were dwelt upon by the Recorder, the jury retired, 
but could not agree—there was one obstinate jury- 
man. The Recorder would not discharge them, 
intimating that they might sleep upon it. This, 
however, precluding the enjoyment of supper, did 
E 2 


1 eae ACQUITTAL OF A SOLICITOR. — 


not suit the fancy of the majority. They retired 
into their private room, from which shortly came 
forth sounds of discord. : 

After a pause they returned into court, the 
obstinate juryman looking hot and dishevelled, 
and evidently not inclined for further intercourse 
with his brethren. | 

A verdict of not guilty was pronounced, and 
my client. was again at liberty to mount his steed 
amongst the cheers of enthusiastic supporters. 


CHAPTER V. 


ELECTION JUDGES. 


As might be expected from the character of the 
tribunals by which Parliamentary committees were 
superseded, an endeavour was made to introduce 
definitions applicable to the different questions 
raised before them, and to bring the proofs within 
their compass. Evidence was restricted by the 
rules prevailing in the ordinary courts, and’ each 
judge had to perform the province of a jury, in 
construing facts and intentions, as well as to lay 
down the law. 

Very few: of the judges had experience of 
elections, and no doubt the machinery adopted by 
candidates presented some novel points for their 
consideration. Generally, I think, their decisions 
gave satisfaction to independent observers, and cer- 
tainly were arrived at with great care and attention. 

I was engaged in several petitions tried before 
the following judges:—Baron Martin, Justices 
Lush, Willes, Blackburn, Mellor, and Grove; all 
men of great learning and experience. I think 
that the first case J was in under the new régime 


54 “BRADFORD PETITION. 


was that of Norwich, before Baron Martin, and 
this was speedily disposed of by unseating the 
member. It was always pleasant to practise 
before this learned judge. He was a thorough 
man of business, a sound lawyer, hasty, but very 
agreeable to counsel, and I imagine possessed no 
small practical experience of the ‘ doings’ of an 
election. I recall with great satisfaction a case in 
which I was counsel before him at Bradford. My 
clent was Mr. Forster, the sitting member, and 
now so well known as Secretary for Ireland. 

Of course the result was of vital importance to 
this gentleman, and although he was personally 
clear from all imputation, there were circumstances 
extremely difficult to deal with, and I felt a very 
considerable amount of anxiety. Mr. Forster had 
himself been away during the canvass, and it was 
admitted that he was strongly opposed to any 
unfair influence being used; but there had been 
proceedings at the municipal elections which had 
shortly preceded the borough one, by which 
it was sought to affect his seat. My task was 
rendered more difficult from the fact that the 
same judge had unseated Mr. Ripley upon grounds 
some of the features of which were similar to 
those relied upon against my client, and in con- 
ducting the case my endeavour was to distinguish 
it from the one previously decided, and in this 


MR. FORSTER. De 


effort I was successful, and justly so. Since that 
time I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. 
Forster, when he has been a guest of my friend 
Sir Bruce Seton, at the Union Club, and he has 
expressed himself in very kind terms of my 
conduct of the case. [also received at the time a 
letter from Mrs. Forster, who had been intensely 
anxious, and expressed herself very gratefully to 
me. lLasked permission of Mr. Forster to record 
these opinions, and received from him the following 


letter :— 
August 22, 1881. 

My dear Serjeant Ballantine,—I am glad you are publishing 
your reminiscences, and look forward with pleasure to their 
perusal. ; 

By all means make any use you like of anything I said 
about your defence of me when under trial. I have never lost 
my sense of the value of that defence, or of its great ability. 

; Yours very truly, 


W. E. Forster. 


I hope that my publication of the above may 
not be considered a proof of foolish vanity, but I 
estimate very highly the opinion of Mr. Forster, 
and consider that if he is under an obligation to 
me, so to a much greater extent are the public. 

If I assisted upon this occasion in benefiting 
the Liberal party, I subsequently, before the same 
judge, aided in maintaining the seat of Mr. Smith 


for Westminster, thus conferring a boon upon the 


56 SIR HENRY JAMES. 


Conservatives. Iam bound, however, to say that 
my leader, Mr. Hawkins, now upon the Bench, was 
the principal contributor to this result. 

Notwithstanding some faults that I have 
already indicated, Mr. Baron Martin, when obliged 
by his increasing deafness to resign, was a great 
loss to the Bench. 

In recording successes of which I am proud, 
and by the result of which the public have bene- 
fited, I am very pleased to mention that in a 
petition against Mr. Serjeant Cox, the then sitting 
member for Taunton, I succeeded in annulling 
his election, and, upon a scrutiny, seating my old 
friend, then Mr. James, since that time become 
Sir Henry, and now Attorney-General; and upon 
a petition against him after a subsequent election I 
was successful in maintaining his seat. | 

If the lives of the puisne judges who have 
occupied the Bench during the last generation 
could find a biographer, no one would fill a brighter 
or more honourable space than Lord Justice Lush, 
but recently deceased. During the time he was at 
the bar and upon the Home Circuit I was con- 
stantly associated with him both in public and 
private, and after his promotion I frequently 
appeared before him. His career exhibits a course 
of unwearied industry and unswerving integrity 
from his earliest youth. He would not be pro- 


MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN. OT 


perly described as a powerful advocate, but he 
was singularly lucid and always a perfect master of 
the facts. As a judge, unmoved by partiality, and, 
although strict in his views, patient, considerate, 
and humane; as a man, his kindness and charity 
had ensured to him the affection of every one who 
knew him. He tried several of the election cases 
in which I was engaged, but I do not remember 
-any that presented features worthy of recording." 

Lord Justice Bramwell was a good judge, and 
restrained upon the bench a natural irritability of 
temper. I also conducted cases before him, but 
not of great interest except to the parties. I 
cannot forbear saying that I never saw any one 
more anxious to assist a counsel who had a 
difficulty in explaining some proposition, or more 
patient in its investigation. It is considered by 
the profession that his retirement from the Appeal 
Court is a very serious loss. 

No one can deny that in the selection of Mr. 
Blackburn as a puisne judge Lord Campbell 
conferred a benefit upon all connected with 
judicial proceedings. He possesses a powerful 
intellect, great grasp and solidity, and has the 
reputation of being a profound lawyer. A Scotch 
accent does not improve a naturally harsh voice, 


1 T had hoped that my kind old friend would have read my appre- 
ciation of him, I wrote it originally in his lifetime, 


58 | MR. BRASSEY. 


and his demeanour can scarcely be termed grace- 
ful, or his manner pleasant, but these are super- 
ficial objections. There is nothing of harshness or 
intentional discourtesy about him; I should doubt 
whether he had ever been what is called a ladies’ 
man, and his gallantry was put to a severe test in 
the following cases, and certainly did not show 
itself to be co-extensive with his law. 

In the first of these I appeared to defend the 
seat of a gentleman who, although he has never 
been connected with a Government, is a very dis- 
tinguished and useful member of the House of 
Commons, and would have been a great loss. This 
was Mr. Brassey, member for Hastings, who was 
petitioned against by Colonel Calthorpe, the dis- 
tinguished Crimean officer. 

One of the means of bribery suggested was the 
purchase of unnecessary apparel by certain ladies, 
energetic supporters of the sitting member ; and 
it was amusing to witness the face of the judge 
during these millinery investigations, and to hear 
his ejaculations upon the number of yards appa- 
rently necessary to clothe the female form. It was 
evidently a subject which his brain was incapable 
of grasping without making inquiries that were 
repellent to his sense of modesty. I trust that I 
may be forgiven for mentioning that I received the 


ereatest assistance from suggestions given me by 


WALLINGFORD PETITION. 59 


Mrs. Brassey ; she showed the greatest acuteness, 
and I consider that the result, which was ultimately 
given in favour of her husband, was in a great mea- 
sure due to her exertions. I was not at all surprised 
at the charming account written by this lady of the 
eruise of the Sunbeam, which I have tread with real 
pleasure, both for its own merits and the memories 
it recalled of what. was a very pleasant inquiry. 

The Wallingford election petition, tried before 
the same judge, was a severe infliction upon his 
patience, and involved him in a comical position. 
In this I was again counsel for the sitting mem- 
ber, a Mr. Stanley Vickers, a distiller. It can 
do no harm now to confess that I never was 
engaged in a case in which, notwithstanding the 
vehement assertions of my clent, I felt graver 
doubts. Indeed my conscience almost gave way 
under the strain of this conviction, and probably 
would have done so but for the support and assist- 
ance of my friend Montagu Williams, who was 
with me in the case. 

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke was the peti- 
tioner. The election had been conducted by the 
supporters on both sides with no inconsiderable 
warmth, which may be accounted for by the fact 
that the ladies of the locality had taken a very 
active part in it, and were warm partisans—it 
might, indeed, have been called a ladies’ battle, and 


60 © AMUSING SCENE. 


they appeared in court arrayed in the colours of 
the respective candidates. But the warmth of 
their advocacy was made so apparent upon the 
first day, that on the second they were divided, and 
placed upon opposite sides of the court. This 
was the occasion of the incident I have referred 
to. Mr. Justice Blackburn had taken his seat and 
composed himself for the performance of his duties, 
when a lady, having arrived late, had to pass him 
to get to her party. Now his lordship’s legs being 
no unimportant portion of his body, her flounces 
became seriously entangled in her attempted pas- 


sage, and for the moment the judge was lost sight » 


of by the audience in front, whilst the lady pre- 
sented the appearance of sitting upon his knee. The 
judge’s voice was heard in no musical tones, and 
when relieved from the embarrassment he declared, 
in emphatic language, ‘ that he never had been in 
such a position before ;’ and this I am disposed to 
believe. 

I remember, amongst the allegations. there was 
a charge against the sitting member of personal 
bribery ; he was said to have committed it whilst 
in the company of a lawyer, a clergyman, and a 
brewer. He and the two former stoutly denied 
the assertion; the brewer was vacillating, and, 
oddly enough, upon the very day that he was to 
be called was thrown from his horse, and the im- 


; 


i 


- PETERSHAM PETITION. 61 


juries he sustained prevented his appearance as a 
witness. 

The counsel for the petitioner had great diffi- 
culties to contend with, from the case not having 
been well got up; and Mr. Justice Blackburn was 
not then much experienced in the trial of election 
petitions. He did not consider that the case was 
brought home with sufficient certainty, and, after 
an inquiry lasting for several days, Mr. Vickers 
was declared duly elected. 

I do not remember being in more than one elec- 
tion case before Mr. Justice Mellor—that of Peters- 
_ham, to which I have already alluded. In this poor 
Alfred Thesiger was opposed to me, and exhibited 
his usual skill. The petition was decided in favour 
of my client, but subsequently reversed upon a 
legal point. This learned judge possessed a great 
fund of common sense, and other qualities well 
calculated to adorn the bench. He has always 
been a most kind and valued friend to me. Mr. 
Justice Grove, distinguished for his deep and varied 
scientific acquirements, and also an_ excellent 
lawyer, tried the petition presented against Sir 
Henry James. 

I am obliged to say that in the opinion I have 
formed of the other judges I cannot include Mr. 
Justice Willes, and in the case of a petition against 
Sir Robert Peel and Sir Henry Bulwer, the sitting 


62 TAMWORTH PETITION. 


members for the borough of Tamworth, his deci- 
sion was received with the most unbounded aston- 
ishment, whilst the reasons given for it, and the 
observations accompanying them, were certainly 
unintelligible to any ordinary mind. There were 
130 men employed by an acknowledged agent, all 
but nineteen of them being voters. They were paid 
for two days’ work—the nomination and polling. 
There was nothing for them to do, and they did 
nothing, 
Justice Willes assumed that they were hired to 


except vote for Peel and Bulwer. Mr: 


obtain popularity for the man who employed them. 
He certainly added that he did not think that 
such a mode of gaining popularity by an agent 
just before an election was desirable. Still more 
extraordinary was the mode in which, in the most 
inflated language, he held up a land agent of Sir — 
Robert’s to admiration, and smothered him with 
praise. There was a collection of small tenements 
that had been held by generations of the same 
tenants; they had practically descended from father 
to son, although it was usual for the occupiers to 
appear on a quarter-day at the bailiffs house and 
go through the form of renewal. The agent can- 
vassed these poor people, hinting to one that some- 
thing should be done for repairs; to another, a 
woman, that it would be better for her husband to 
vote for Bulwer; and conveying threats and pro- 
mises throughout the entire neighbourhood. 


MR. JUSTICE WILLES. 63 


The election took place : and, on the quarter- 
day following, these poor people attended as 
usual for a renewal of their leases, and in every 
instance where they had voted adversely it was 
refused. They were, in addition, treated with the 
utmost harshness; and in some instances, when 
they were unable to find a place to go to, higher 
rents were extorted from them—as the judge 
admitted—illegally. It would occupy.too much 
space to record the panegyrics lavished upon this 
centleman. But not content with this, the judge 
fell foul of me, with pretty much the same delicacy 
and taste with which he had praised the agent, 
concluding with the following not very intelligible 
sentences: ‘ Allow if you will that he (the agent), 
hke others whom I have known coming from the 
same part of the country, is somewhat dark, and 
hard, and angular in business matters, I am not to: 
judge of his moral character. But I have known 
such men, and I have known them not only as 
truthful but as kindly as those who could gloze, 
and who could be base in matters of figures and 
facts.’ 

At the time he uttered this remarkable tirade 
I had left the court and gone to London, but 
received a letter from one of my friends giving 
me an account of it, and saying that the judge 
had made his intention. most marked by direct- 


64 ABSURD DECISION. 


ing his words towards the space that I had left. 
I wrote to him requiring an explanation, to which 
he answered that he had not intended them to apply 
to me, which did not exalt my ideas of his accuracy, 
although it prevented me from taking other steps. 
His oration, which took up a considerable time, 
ended by retaining both members in their seats. 

I cannot account for his otherwise incredible 
conduct than by supposing that. the position of the 
respondents exercised, perhaps unconsciously to 
himself, an influence upon his mind, and threw a 
sort of glamour over his understanding. He was 
always apt to over-refining, but upon this occasion 
his ingenuity surpassed the bounds of common 
sense, and absolutely travestied the facts of the 
case to force them into the decision on which he had 
determined. 

I have never made any concealment of my 
opinion of the behaviour of Mr. Justice Willes in 
this case, and some time after it I received a letter 
from Mr. Peel, an uncle of Sir Robert, who had 
been his opponent at the election, requesting 
to know whether I had advised the petition, 
and whether the facts had been correctly stated 
tome. I answered in the affirmative, and added 
that the facts proved upon the trial were much 
stronger than those laid before me. | 


Some time afterwards a piece of plate was 


SPEECH OF MR. PEEL. 65 


presented to Mr. Peel by his supporters and 
friends, and upon this occasion he referred to my 
letter in the following words :— 

‘The evidence collected was submitted to 
Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Henry James, and 
they advised that a petition should be presented, 
which was accordingly done. Having heard the 
evidence given in court, he (Mr. Peel) was satisfied 
that bribery prevailed extensively, especially in 
the case of the 130 men, who were employed by 
the agent of one candidate, and paid by the agent 
of the other. Intimidation was also clearly prac- 
tised, because threats were used, and afterwards 
earried out ; but upon the trial astonishingly subtle 
distinctions were drawn between treating and reason- 
able refreshment and as to agency. He believed 
that there was but one opinion in the country with 
regard to the trial, and that was that the failure of 
the petition was a miscarriage of justice. 

‘Serjeant Ballantine having been asked whether 
he would advise a petition in a similar case again, 
said he should certainly do so, and be confident of 
a different decision from any other Judge upon 
the Bench, and that the grounds of the decision of 
Mr. Justice Willes were totally inexplicable to him. 
Mr. James in answer to the same question said 
that there were many reasons why he should not 
express an opinion about the judgment.’ 

VOL. Il. F 


66 CHARACTER OF MR. JUSTICE WILLES. 


Mr. Justice Willes possessed the reputation of 
being one of the most profound and able lawyers 
upon the Bench. His habits, as far as I had any 
opportunity of observing them, exhibited no cor- 
-diality, but I had always been upon perfectly 
good terms with him. He was in criminal cases a 
merciful judge, and impressed me as having a 
hatred of injustice and tyranny. He was, how- 
ever, singularly emotional, and in another election 
petition in which I was engaged—it was that of 
Penzance—he exhibited this trait in a ridiculous 
manner. An allegation of bribery against a doc- 
tor, I am not sure that he was not a veterinary 
surgeon, was strongly relied upon, and appeared 
to me to be fully made out; but his lordship 
almost burst into tears at the idea of a member 
of that ‘noble profession’ being guilty of such a 
crime. It is more than probable that with this 
disposition and an enormous strain upon his mind, - 
his naturally great intellect was shaken from its 
pedestal, and subsequent events have led me to 
believe that this was the cause of eccentricities 
which I should be sorry to attribute to motives of 


a more unworthy character. 


67 


CHAPTER VI. ° 


hit UNION CLUB. 


In the course of the foregoing pages I have 
frequently mentioned the Union Club, and as it is 
one of the earliest, if not the very first established 
upon the now existing basis of the principal clubs, 
it may not be altogether uninteresting to give 
some short sketch of its history. It is much 
older than is generally supposed, having come 
into existence in the early part of the year 1805. 
At one time there seemed to be a chance of its 
being christened The Cumberland, its original 
meetings being held in a house of that name, but 
I can only find one occasion when for some twenty- 
four hours it bore that name; always after it was 
known by its present one. | 
The first meeting of which any record exists took 
place on February 20 in the year I have mentioned, 
and on this day the first committee was chosen ; it 
was headed by the Marquis of Headfort, Lord 
Roden, and General Ormsby. There were upon 


it several officers of high rank and a Mr. John 
kee 


68 UNION CLUB. 


Spencer Smith, who I fancy was a member of the 
ereat banking firm of Smith, Payne, and Smiths. 

It does not appear by the minutes to which 
I have access what was done between that time 
and a meeting that took place upon February 3 
in the following vear ; this was held at Cumberland 
House, and called a meeting of managers. Their 
names do not appear, but I conclude they con- 
sisted of the committee previously chosen; and 
a person of the name of Raggett, who was, I fancy, 
a tavern-keeper, was appointed under the de- 
scription of proprietor and conductor, and author 
ised to procure a house, and on March 16 
following there was a further resolution in which 
Mr. Raggett was called master, but no business 
was done until February 3, 1807, in which the 
terms of subscription were settled at ten guineas a 
year, and one guinea for the servants, a guarantee 
being given to Raggett that there should be no 
less number of members than 250; that gentle- 
men should be elected by ballot, which was to 
take place between 11 at night and 1 o'clock in 
the morning. 

It is strange that amongst the minutes in 
possession now of the club I cannot find with 
any certainty what proceedings took place between 
that period and January 30, 1812, nor even where 
the club was held. I am inclined to believe it 


UNION CLUB. 69 


was at the house of the Duke of Leeds in &t. 
James's Square; the club, however, does not, up 
to that date, appear to have attained any consider- 
able success, as I gather from the proceedings that 
then took place. Mr. Raggett expressed a desire 
to throw up his engagement, as there were not a 
sufficient number of members to make it remuner- 
ative, and in consequence it was determined that 
fifty new ones should be elected, which seems to 
have been immediately done, and the number 
_ readily obtained. When this had been achieved 
the club appeared to float on without difficulty. 
Amongst the number there were no less than 
fifty-six members of the House of Peers, includ- 
ing the Dukes of York and Sussex, Richmond 
and Devonshire, the Marquis of Wellesley, Duke 
of Argyll, Lord Granville, Leveson Gower, Marquis 
of Hertford, Lord Peterborough, Lord Stair, and, 
most celebrated of all, Lord Byron. 

There were also members of the firm of the 
Barings, and also of the Messrs. Hoare, and, amongst 
names still remembered, Sir Jonah Barrington, 
Quintin Dick, and Mr. Labouchere. 

At this time it was in the strictest sense of 
the term a proprietary club, which I believe was the 
case of all others then existing. The principal of 
these were Brooks’s and White’s, the Travellers’ 
and the United Service; and so it continued until 


70 UNION CLUB. 


the year 1821; in the August of which it was 
established substantially in its present form, and 
I believe was the first club that adopted it. A 
committee of five was appointed to carry it out, 
and the success that followed is not wonderful, 
as one of the greatest men of any age assisted in 
the task, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel. The 
other members were Viscount Gage, Lord Lowther, 
Pascoe Grenfell, and George Hammersley, and 
under their auspices the Union Club took the 
from under which, with slight variations, it still 
exists...” Che plot of land upon which the house 
was built was secured at a rental of 306/. per 
annum, and has now forty years to run, and the 
house itself was built under the direction of Mr. 
Smirke, the architect, who was selected by the 
committee in consequence of having designed that 
occupied by the United Service. I cannot find that 
there are any distinguished members of the Bench 
or Bar amongst those originally elected, indeed I 
do not recognise a single specimen; neither is the 
Church represented. JI suppose that in the early 
period of the century graver and more improving 
occupations than. those of club life occupied the 
time of both professions. 

I became a member in 1852, and the Bar 
had numerous representatives by no means undis- 
tinguished at that date, or shortly after: Jervis, 


LAWYERS AND BANKERS. fia 


afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; 
Maule, a judge of the same court; Lord Justice 
Knight Bruce, Mr. Montague Chambers, Lord 
Justice Selwyn, Mr. Justice Byles, and many 
others. There was also a good sprinkling of 
eminent bankers, including two or three members 
of the Messrs. Goslings, one of the oldest firms in 
London, and from whom I have received many 
acts of kindness. One of them used to play the 
moderate whist to which players were confined by 
the rules of the club. I can remember him so 
well. He looked, what he was, the picture of a 
gentleman of the old school, as he rode his 
thorough-bred cob quietly along the park. 

There was another banker, a very old gentle- 
man, who made his appearance only occasionally. 
I have already mentioned him as a friend of Sir Fre- 
derick Pollock, and as one of his great supporters 
at Huntingdon, where he carried on his business. 
His name was Veasey, and he was the oldest 
banker in England; I believe I am right in saying 
that in that capacity he used to preside at an 
annual dinner of the members of the profession. 
His age must have been very great at the time of his 
death, but almost to the last he maintained a jaunty 
air and juvenile dress, with old-fashioned courteous 
manners. In one sense he was part of my family 
history, having been trustee in different settlements 


12 MR. VEASEY, 


in which my mother was interested. He occupied | 
a house in the town of Huntingdon that had once 
belonged to her.t 

On one occasion, some years before his death, 
I happened to be in this town upon professional 
business, and dined with him. He took me before 
dinner into a little side room, in which there was 
an old-fashioned window, and pointing to one of 
its panes said, ‘ There your poor mother scratched 
her name with her diamond ring; it shall never be 
removed in my time.’ And there, truly enough, was 
‘ Betsy Cole, written at least eighty years before. It 
was not easy when | was a candidate to secure 
election to the club, and, notwithstanding the dis- 
tinguished men I have mentioned, lawyers were un- 
popular ; but I was fortunate in my sponsors. Sir 
Frederick Slade, the Queen’s counsel, was one of 
them, and Sir Henry Webb, a man greatly courted 
in society and liked in the club, was the other. 
Sir John Bayley and Sir Thomas Henry, the chief 
magistrate of Bow Street, very warmly supported 
me. All those whose names I have mentioned are 
dead, as also many others whom I recall with a 
feeling of sadness, and with whom I have enjoyed 
many pleasant hours. As I have already men- 
tioned, I was intimate with Mr. Justice Maule, and 


1 He dressed in imitation of George IV., but this was his only 
foible that ever I discovered. 


SIR THOMAS HENRY 73 


have expressed the high opinion I had of his in- 
tellect. Lord Justice Knight Bruce possessed 
many brilliant qualities, and certainly was one of 
the most vivacious companions that I ever met 
with. Selwyn seemed a very kind and easy tem- 
pered man, and was a great scholar, an accom- 
plished lawyer, and the picture of health. I have 
heard he lost his life at a comparatively early age 
through an unskilful operation. 

I cannot close my memories of the club during, 
to me, its old days, without a few more words of Sir 
Thomas Henry, who remained a sincere friend to 
the end of his career. At some private houses where 
we frequently met he was an immense favourite 
and always welcome guest. As a magistrate he 
commanded, and justly, great respect, and was in 
fact an excellent officer. His legal knowledge had 
been obtained by study, and he never made any mark 
at the bar. He was appointed when unusually 
young, as were two of his cotemporaries, Norton 
and Hardwick. ‘They were all three gentlemen ; 
and the two latter, as well as Henry, fully justified | 
their appointment. His death was very sad. It 
was his duty on race days to sit in a temporary 
office at Epsom, and on one ungenial occasion he 
got chilled and was not attended to, although his 
illness ought to have been apparent, and for a long 
time he was kept out in the cold ; a very little care 


74 THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 


and a slight restorative would have saved a valua- 
ble life probably for many years. 

| I came out of the club one day and found 
Selwyn talking to ‘a gentleman in the guise of a 
bishop; he introduced me to him. It was Lord 
Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Selwyn left 
him at the corner of Pall Mall, and his lordship 
and myself walked together up St. James’s Street, 
down Piccadilly, to Hyde Park Corner. Of course 
there were many respectful salutations to him, and 
several people we met recognised me; they must 
have felt a good deal of surprise at the company in 
which they saw me. He was very courtly and 
pleasmg, but I could not forbear at parting to 
take off my hat, and with a low bow said, ‘ My 
lord, you have ruined my character.’ He gave a 
good-humoured smile, and expressed a hope that 
he had improved it. 

The foregoing incident brings to my mind a trip 
I had to the Derby in very different company. 
There were four of us, all men, in a barouche, and 
one of my companions had brought his butler with 
him, who was clad in a white neckcloth. A lot 
of roughs recognised me, and one of them shouted 
out, ‘There goes the serjeant with his domestic 
chaplain.’ We very soon made him doff the garb 
that involved me in such a calumny. 


The following story has gone the round of the 


ANECDOTE. 7) 


profession, but has probably not travelled beyond 
it. It relates to two Queen’s counsel; one of them 
at all events deserves some description. He was a 
man who had fought a singularly energetic battle 
against feeble health with great success, and, pos- 
sessing strong good sense, had become one of the 
most eminent members of the bar. He was fond 
of the turf in a prudent way, and knew a good 
deal about it. ‘He would have made a splendid 
jockey,’ once said one of his admirers ; ‘ what a pity 
he took to the law!’ This, however, was not his 
opinion, and he realised the largest fortune ever 
made at it. Moreover, he loved the work and the 
money he made by it. 

The other party to this anecdote was of a dif- 
ferent type. He had been obliged to work to live, 
and did not love it. He had, however, obtained 
reasonable success. He liked amusement, and 
sought it, and considered a Long Vacation ought to 
be devoted to nothing else. One day, just after the 
conclusion of this period of legal holiday, the two 
counsel met. They were old acquaintances—had 
been on the same circuit. ‘ What have you been 
doing?’ was the natural question of one to the 
other ; and an account was given by the latter of his 
trip upon the Continent. ‘ Well,’ said the former, 
‘T have not stirred from town, and have been doing 
lots of work.’ ‘ What is the use of it?’ was the 


76 ANECDOTE. 


observation made ; ‘ you cannot carry your money 
with you, and if you did it would soon melt.’ 

His money-making is now at an end, and at 
present his earnings are in no danger. He is in 
the service of his country, and seems to love work 
just as much now as when very tempting figures 
were endorsed upon every case in which he was 
engaged. | | | 


=—T 
—J 


CHAPTER VII. 
MADAME RACHEL. 


In one of the worst haunts of the metropolis 
there resided in the days that I practised at the 
Middlesex Sessions a woman of the name of 
Rachel. Her name and her occupation were not 
unfrequently brought to the attention of the 
magistrates; a further description of them would 
not be desirable. 

I saw her, without knowing either her name or 
calling, behind the scenes at Drury Lane Theatre. 
Her ostensible object was to sell articles of dress 
to the female employées. Her real business was 
brought to light by one of them throwing the 
contents of a glass of porter into her face in 
response to an insulting proposition; she never 
to my knowledge appeared there afterwards. The 
next that was heard of her was keeping a shop 
in Bond Street, ostensibly for the sale of perfumes 
and cosmetics, but in reality for the purposes of 
extortion and robbery. On a certain occasion the 
-wife of Admiral C 
the purchase of some trifling article. Madame 


unwarily entered it for 


78 MADAME RACHEL. 


Rachel was singularly plausible, and induced her 
customer to purchase from time to time other 
matters to a small amount, and sent in an ex- 
orbitant bill for them, which I believe was 
paid, and Mrs. C | 
Upon this happening, a claim arrived amounting 
to 1,000, upon the allegation that Mrs. © 
had been cured by Madame’s aid of some skin 


discontinued her patronage. 


affection ; dark hints of other matters accompany- 
ing the claim. There was not a word of truth in 
the assertions or insinuations, and the Admiral most 
properly resisted the claim, which was scouted 
with disgust and indignation. 

Madame Rachel, however, was not discouraged, 
and still professed the power of making ladies 
beautiful for ever, and, strange as it may appear, 
there were many who yielded to the pleasing 
belief. Amongst them was a lady, who once 
upon a time had been a beauty, was possessed 
of a fortune, and thought that it could not be 
better employed than in securing a continuance, 
or rather reproduction, of her charms, and she 
was persuaded that the effect already produced 
had inflamed the heart of a nobleman of distin- 
guished appearance, well known about town, and 
that a letter fabricated by Madame Rachel was 
the genuine outpouring of that gentleman’s sudden 
and enthusiastic passion. She obtained from her 


TRIAL OF MADAME RACHEL. 19 


dupe large sums of money, and, emboldened by 
success, demanded larger, and actually caused her 
victim to be arrested for a supposed debt. This 
brought matters to a climax, and friends interfer- 
ing, Madame made her appearance at Marlborough 
Street Police Court, and was committed for trial 
at the Central Court. The quondam beauty—a 
skeleton encased apparently in plaster of Paris, 
painted pink and white, and surmounted with a 
juvenile wig—tottered into the witness-box. The 
folly she had exhibited and her childish mode of 
giving evidence probably led some of the jury to 
distrust her, and they were discharged without a 
verdict. ? 
Upon a subsequent sessions Rachel was tried 
before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, a gentleman of very 
sound sense, and was without much hesitation con- 
victed and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. 
I prosecuted upon both occasions, and on the first, 
through a false impression, made an observation 
about the nobleman whose name had been men- 
tioned, which I afterwards felt was not justified 
and I greatly regretted. The fact was, that there 
was nothing more impudent perpetrated in the case 
than the use of his name by Madame Rachel, and 
for which it turned out there was not the slightest 
pretence. 

The prison discipline did not apparently possess 


80 | HOCKER. 


much influence upon Madame, who took to her 
old courses immediately the term had expired, 
and, by a similar process to that she had already 
gone through, found her way back again to prison, 
and there died; not, however, before she had done 
much mischief, darkened many a home, and led 
many girls, who but for her might have been 
happy and contented, into misery and crime. She 
was one of the most filthy and dangerous moral 
pests that have existed in my time and within 
my observation. 

In the year 1845 I was counsel at the Central 
Court in a case that excited interest at the time of 
its occurrence. It presented some curious facts, and 
although no doubt could arise asto the guilt of the 
accused man, there was nevertheless a mystery con- 
nected with the deed which was never explained. 

A gentleman of respectable position was found 
lying with his throat cut, and perfectly dead, in 
a lane between what then was Chalk Farm and 
Belsize Park ; his name was De la Rue. Whilst 
a constable was standing by-his body, a young man 
dressed in a gentlemanly manner came up, made 
some remark to the policeman, leant over the 
body, examined it, and felt the pulse. He 
appeared perfectly calm and unembarrassed. His 
name was Hocker, and he was the murderer. On 
the body of the deceased was found a letter 


HOCKER IN NEWGATE. Sl 


signed Caroline, asking De la Rue to meet her at the 
spot where the body was found; this letter was 
proved to be in the handwriting of the prisoner, 
and property of value that had belonged to Mr. 
De la Rue was found upon Hocker’s person. 

The impulse that brought him back to the body 
of the man he had slain was indeed strange, and 
the coolness with which he felt and examined it 
showed marvellous power of self-control. The 
trial took place before Mr. Justice Coleridge, and 
is one of those which exhibited the excellent 
qualities as a judge that he possessed. The 
difficulty that arose of explaining in any intelli- 
sible way the letter or the connection that existed 
between the parties made him extremely anxious, 
and my instructions furnished no clue to solving 
the difficulty, yet I felt there might be some 
explanation, and for the first and only time in 
my life that I ever did so, I requested and 
obtained an interview with the prisoner. It took 
place in Newgate, during the mid-day adjourn- 
ment of the Court, and remains vividly upon my 
memory. He was quite young, scarcely twenty 
years old; he was seated upon a wooden bench in 
a small square cell, whitewashed, and without other 
furniture, himself quite calm and _self-possessed. 
He would give no further statement than that I 
had already received. I told him that I could not 

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82 FRANZ MULLER. 


put it forward with any hope of success, and 
advised him, if he insisted upon adhering to it, to 
make it himself. He said he preferred to do 
so, and accordingly he conveyed it to the jury 
without any exhibition of nervousness, although, © 
I am confident, without hope. If the facts proved 
had left any possible conclusion but that of guilt — 
it would have been enforced upon the jury, who 
had no alternative but to find a verdict of guilty, 
and he was necessarily condemned to death, which 
he suffered, showing no sign of either repentance 
or fear. Mr. Clarkson led me in this case, and con- 
curred in my view. : 

Whilst visiting my chamber of horrors I may 
be excused for exhuming another trial in which 
I was also engaged, leading on this occasion for 
the Crown; it was the case of Franz Miiller, a 
German, charged with the murder of Mr. Briggs 
in a railway carriage. The prosecution of Lefroy, 
which has recently caused so much attention, has, 
from its similarity in many of its circumstances, 
brought it into notice. And the two cases are 
in many respects alike, both being conclusively 
proved by circumstantial evidence, and in both the 
prisoner declaring his innocence almost to the last. 
It is very satisfactory to feel that the means used 
after the conviction of the latter criminal to raise 
an issue that had never been suggested when it 


ae 


MORRISON AND BELCHER. 83 


could have been properly tested were not counte- 
nanced, either by the learned judge who tried him 
or by the Home Office authorities. 

I will now call the attention of my readers to 
some more amusing legal incidents; the locality, 
although a near neighbour of the Old Bailey, is 
not redolent of crime, it is the Court of Queen’s 
Bench, Guildhall. Sir Alexander Cockburn is 
the presiding judge, and the trial about to take 
place one of considerable interest. There were 


several members of the aristocracy present, 


amongst them the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Sir 
Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Earl of Wilton, and 
Lord Harry Vane; whilst the Church was repre- 
sented by the Bishop of Lichfield and Dr. Robin- 
son, the Master of the Temple. The occasion 
that drew these noble and reverend personages to 
an unaccustomed scene was an action brought by 
Lieutenant Morrison against Admiral Belcher for 
libel. ‘The plaintiff called himself an astrologer, 
and was the author of ‘ Zadkiel’s Almanack,’ 
whom the Admiral had practically denounced as 
a cheat and impostor. Mr. Serjeant Shee was 
counsel for Lieutenant Morrison, I was retained 
for the defendant, and the ground upon which he 
founded his attack was that some years before 
the plaintiff had asserted that he was upon terms 
of acquaintance with certain spirits of another 
G 2 


84 CRYSTAL BALL. 


world, who exhibited themselves through the 
medium of a crystal ball, and there was no doubt 
that he had claimed this remarkable privilege, and 
had exhibited proofs of it before the different dis- 
tinguished people who appeared in court as his. 
witnesses, although they did not all of them fully 
support his claim. The presence of the clergy 
might be accounted for by his most intimate friend 
and constant visitor being St. Luke, who conversed 
in the English language, and associated with him 
upon familiar terms. A young person who gave 
the name of Eva also visited him; but the most 
pleasant of his acquaintances was Titania, who 
appeared to have been permitted by her lord and 
master to be a frequent guest. One of the ladies 
who was called as a witness on the plaintiff’s behalf 
at the trial deposed that she had seen her mother 
reflected in the ball, and also a knight clad in 
complete armour, but of whose conduct she did 
not entirely approve, as there was a young lady 
attired in pink, to whom he was evidently paying 
very marked attention. The witness who gave this 
evidence was neither young nor flighty, and gave 
it with much earnestness and solemnity, ending by 
declaring that the scene would never pass from 
her memory. 

I was somewhat surprised to see Dr. Robinson 
amongst the believers, as from all I had heard of 


‘“ZADKIEL S ALMANACK.’ 85 


his discourses in the Temple Church he was by no 
means of an imaginative turn of mind. 

The reading of the almanack, and the different 
auguries connected with the birth of great men, to- 
gether with prophecies as to the date of their dis- 
solution, afforded much amusement. Brougham 
was bound to have been dead, but unfortunately 
had survived the event foretold, and several others 
had disappointed the predictions of the sage. 
Much laughter was occasioned by a description of 
the singular brilhancy presented by the planets 
Mars and Venus upon the birth of Lord Palmer- 
ston. ‘The Chief Justice Cockburn revelled in the 
case, which terminated in a verdict for twenty 
shillings, the judge refusing to certify for costs. 
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer was examined, but did 
not support the plaintiff’s supernatural claim, 
although he evidently disapproved of the levity 
exhibited in court. 

Admiral Sir Edward Belcher was a most 
distinguished and gallant officer. He had com- 
manded two or three Arctic expeditions, but was 
not, however, a popular officer. He was very 
much of a martinet, although, as far as I was 
able to judge, by no means of a cruel or inhu- 
man disposition; latterly he was not employed 
according to his expectations, and showed a good 
deal of disappointment in consequence. I knew 


86 MR. SLADE. 


him very well; he was singularly well-informed, 
although somewhat speculative. Private matters, 
of the rights of which none but the parties to 
them could form a judgment, had greatly em- 
bittered his life. There was a singular physical 
fact connected with him—he had entirely lost 
the sense of taste; this he frequently complained 
of, and could not account for. <A friend of mine, an 
eminent member of the Bar, suffers in the same 
way, but is able to trace the phenomenon to the 
shock that he suffered in a railway collision. 

Not many years ago it became my duty to 
represent an American gentleman named Slade, 
who, like Mr. Morrison, professed an intimate 
acquaintance with the world of spirits, and also 
obtained a considerable number of believers. A 
scientific doctor alleged that his proceedings were 
mere tricks, and undertook to expose them; and 
a magistrate, before whom evidence to this effect 
was given, committed him as a rogue and vaga- 
bond to gaol. From this decision he appealed to 
the Court of Quarter Sessions, where I appeared as 
his counsel, and an amusing though not very edify- 
ing scene occurred. The bench presented the 
appearance that it does upon the gala days, when 
the morals of dancing and music are discussed by 
solemn tongues. Justices filled every corner of it, 
and no one entertained much doubt for what 


MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. 87 


they had come. Mr. Edlin, assistant-judge, occu- 
pied the chair. I took a purely legal objection 
to the conviction, which was argued at considerable 
length, and the chairman was prepared to decide 
in its favour, but to this his brethren demurred, 
and the Court adjourned. After a very consider- 
able delay, they returned, Mr. Edlin took his seat, 
and amidst signs of astonishment exhibited upon 
the faces of the magistrates, quashed the convic- 
tion, which they subsequently declared he had no 
authority whatever to do, and indeed stated that he 
acted in direct antagonism to the opinions of the 
majority. No doubt this was the case, and quite 
unwarrantable, but at the same time he was the 
proper person to decide a point of law. There 
were only two or three others upon the bench 
who knew anything about it, or could under- 
stand the argument, even if they had tried to do 
so, and his judgment ought to have been decisive 
upon it. It would be an unsatisfactory state of 
things that the guilt or innocence of an accused 
person should be determined by the vote of a 
majority. It must be remembered that the con- 
viction, if affirmed, involved imprisonment, and 
was therefore just as serious in its result as if it 
had been tried before a jury, who must be unani- 
mous, and are under the obligation of an oath. 
I am aware that magistrates sit constantly with the 


VOL. Il. a4 


88 os NERS SEADES a 


chairman to decide appeals, but these are rarely in ; o 
sensational cases. a 

Mr. Slade took an early departure from a ate 
in which his powers had been appreciated in 80 


unsatisfactory a manner to himself. Babi 


89 


CHAPTER VIII. 


RISK ALLAH.—LANDSEER.—COCKBURN. 


Axsout the same period, I met three remarkable 
personages: Risk Allah Bey, Sir Edwin Landseer, 
and Sir Alexander Cockburn. It is many years 
ago, in the days when the world was all before me. 
The first was a foreigner for some time a celebrity 
in the law courts. The second was an artist whose 
works will never be forgotten, and whose genial 
qualities will never be surpassed ; the third, a bril- 
liant orator, accomplished lawyer, and ultimately 
Chief Justice of England. 

Thackeray, in his novel of ‘The Newcomes,’ 
remarks how easy the entrance is into society of a 
foreigner possessing agreeable and plausible man- 
ners, without those formalities with which it fences 
itself against the inroads of its own countrypeople. 
Risk Allah was handsome, his manners polished, 
his costume picturesque. I did not admire his 
face, and when many years afterwards I saw him 
under the circumstances I am about to describe, I 
thought it repulsive. He was apparently upon terms 
of some intimacy with Sir Alexander Cockburn 


9() RISK ALLAH. 


(who, like himself, was an accomplished linguist), 
and a foreigner whose subsequent career was suffi- 
ciently romantic to warrant description. In the 
year 1857 he married an English lady of the name 
of Lewis, who possessed a considerable fortune. 
Connected with her, in some way that I do not now 
remember, was a lad named Charles Readley. Risk 
Allah was entitled in the event of his wife’s death 
to the possession of her fortune. The lady, shortly 
after he married her, fell into bad health, to which 
after some time she succumbed; and Risk Allah 
succeeded to a large sum of money, and to the 
care of the young man, who was of weakly con- 
stitution and suffered from epileptic fits. He was 
entitled to 5,000/., which reverted upon his death 
to Risk Allah. Readley had also made a will and 
insured his life in that gentleman’s favour. Such 
being the condition of affairs, these two were in 
March 1865 staying at the Hotel du Rhin at Ant- 
werp, and happened to be the only visitors in the 
hotel. Readley was alive, and, according to the 
evidence of a chambermaid, was, on one morning 
of the above month, at seven o’clock sleeping 
quietly. At nine o’clock he was found dead in his 
bed, with a wound in his throat, and a discharged 
eun by his bed-side. 7 

It was suggested that he had committed suicide; 
but suspicion attached to Risk Allah, who was 


TRIAL FOR MURDER. : 9] 


apprehended and subsequently put upon his trial 
before the Supreme Criminal Court at Brussels, 
charged with the murder of the young man. 
Much and very lengthy evidence was given on 
both sides, and long arguments supplied by able 
advocates ; and the result was, after a patient sum- 
ming-up by the presiding judge, that Risk Allah 
was acquitted. 

He was also accused of complicity with a person 
named Osman in a number of frauds. There was 
no doubt of the roguery of this person, and that his 
proceedings had been very extensive, but the Court 
came to the conclusion that Risk Allah had been a 
victim and not an accomplice in his offences. 

There was another matter which threw sus- 
picion upon him in connection with two forged 
cheques. This, however, was fully gone into before 
the tribunal at Brussels; and of this also he was 
acquitted.+ 

A number of experts upon hand-writing were 
called on both sides, and also experts to show that 
from the position of the body Readley might have 
shot himself. 

Some articles appeared in the ‘ Daily Tele- 
eraph’ newspaper commenting upon the trial 
with a great deal of force and ability, but there 


1 These three charges were, in accordance with Belgian law, in- 
cluded in one indictment. 


92 ACTION AGAINST THE ‘ TELEGRAPH.’ 


could be no doubt that the guilt of the accused 
was more than suggested, and Risk Allah brought 
an action for libel against the proprietors. After 


an acquittal by a competent tribunal, it would ~ 


not have been right or prudent to plead a justi- 
fication, and under these circumstances, the only 
question that could be submitted to a jury was 
that of damages, and the case came on to be tried, 
in June 1868, before Sir Alexander Cockburn. Mr. 
Serjeant Parry appeared for Risk Allah, and made 
an extremely eloquent speech on his behalf. Mr. 
Coleridge, the present Chief Justice of England, who 
led me for the ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ said all that could 
be urged under the circumstances. Sir Alexander — 
Cockburn summed up with perfect fairness, and the 
jury returned a verdict for 960/., which, under all the 
circumstances, could not be considered exorbitant. 

On July 2, in the same year, Risk Allah made 
another appearance before the same judge, again 
in the character of a complainant, and again the 
victim, by his own account, of a series of disastrous 
circumstances in which he was the injured person. 
These occurred after his adventures in Belgium, 
and the story was developed in an action brought 
by him in the Court of Queen’s Bench against the © 
British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company for 
the sum of 3,000/., for which amount he held an 
insurance in that company. Mr. Serjeant Parry 


RISK ALLAH AND INSURANCE COMPANY. 93 


was again his counsel, and I led for the defence. 
The story Risk Allah told was a very remarkable 
one.’ He was, he said, previous to the occurrence 
afterwards detailed, considerably in debt, and being 
moved by the desire to pay his creditors, he col- 
lected from a variety of sources the amount he 
claimed from the company; this he turned into 
specie, and it realised 3,000/. in gold. He kept his 
good intentions to himself, none of his creditors 
heard of the favourable news, nor did he blazon 
forth to strangers the information, or exhibit the 
money, although several persons were shown the 
parcel said to contain it. He secreted it about his 
person, which was quite natural, as he was then at 
Constantinople, where, as in other great cities, all 
people do not possess such honest dispositions as he 
did. The only memorandum he had verifying his 
possession of the money was contained in a pocket- 
book also upon his person. He knew that the noble 
sacrifice he was about to make would leave him 
penniless, but he had determined to dedicate his 
life to his country, and enlist under the renowned 
chieftain, Omar Pasha. Having taken the pre- 
caution of insuring his treasure with the company I 
represented, and hugging his valuable freight close 
to his body, he embarked in a boat on the shores 
of the Bosphorus, for the purpose of reaching the 
ship that was to carry him to those climes where he 


94 ‘TRIAL OF ACTION. 


could lighten his conscience and his pockets ; but 
Providence, it would appear, does not always watch 
over the virtuous, or prosper their efforts, however 
intended for the benefit of others, for, just as he 
was stepping on board, souse he went into the sea. 

Fortunately for himself, Risk Allah was an excel- 
lent swimmer, and, reaching the top, was rescued ; 
the bag remained at the bottom; and his misfor- 
tunes did not end there, for he might still have felt 
a happy consciousness that his note-book would 
show to the world his unluckily frustrated inten- 
tions. Alas! here again cruel fate pursued him, for 
the good Samaritan who had rescued him from 
drowning deprived him even of this consolation by 
picking his pocket of the valuable document. So 
that, beyond the credit that could be attached to 
his own relation, he had not a scrap of evidence to 
support the claim he made against the company for 
the loss, and it is obvious that there were no wit- 
nesses that could be called for my clients, so that I 
was obliged in reply to rely upon the improbability 
of the story and Risk Allah’s antecedents. I com- 
mented upon the extraordinary features that had 
characterised his life, and upon the strange posi- 
tions in which he had contrived to place himself. 
I ventured to suggest that, however innocent he 
may have been, the perils he had incurred would 
naturally have induced him to protect himself from 


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RESULT OF ACTION. 95 


suspicion in subsequent transactions, that nothing 
could have been more easy than to have obtained 
a dozen witnesses to prove the contents of the bag, 
and also the means by which he had obtained them. 
The case, as I have said, did not admit of my calling 
witnesses. To my great surprise the Lord Chief 
Justice took a strong view in favour of the plaintiff. 
I am confident it was a sincere one, although I 
think that a feeling of sympathy had created it 
rather than a calm judgment which ought to 
have governed his views. He was extremely elo- 
quent, and appealed strongly to the jury in favour 
of Risk Allah, poimting out that my speech had 
been pure declamation, and that I had called no wit- 
nesses, ignoring altogether the impossibility of my 
doing so. The jury, after deliberating for a long 
time, were ultimately discharged without giving a 
verdict, one of them remarking, in relation to 
Risk Allah intending to pay his creditors, ‘My 
Lord, I cannot swallow that!’ 

Risk Allah never afterwards, to my knowledge, 
made any other appearance upon our shores, 
and what is his true history will never, perhaps, 
be disclosed in this world. 

It will be within the recollection of those ane 
have perused the account of my early days, that in 
Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, at the time my father 
resided there, so also did Mr. Wilde, afterwards 


96 SERJEANTS INN, FLEET STREET. 


Mr. Serjeant Wilde, Solicitor General, Chief 
Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor. 
He had only obtained the degree of the coif 
when I was first called to the bar; however, I re- 
member upon one occasion being his junior, and 
although I cannot recall either the name or nature 
of the case, I have a very distinct recollection of a 
consultation at his chambers, which lasted from 
eight until twelve o’clock. He was probably one 
of the most laborious and painstaking men that 
ever practised, and in many respects the late Sir 
John Karslake reminded me of him. Like him, his 
earnest and anxious attention to work impaired 
his health, and brought on, as it did with Sir 
John, severe neuralgia, amounting in fact to tic 
douloureux, which resulted, as was probably the 
case with the latter gentleman, in softening of the 
brain. He also bravely conducted causes of great 
importance with infinite skill whilst suffering the © 
acutest agonies. ‘This was the case with the cele- 
brated appeal in Small and Attwood, in the House 
of Lords, and in which he succeeded in obtaining 
a reversal of the judgment pronounced by Lord 
Lyndhurst in the Court of Exchequer. He ob- 
tained permission to argue the case without his wig, 
in consequence of the acuteness of his suffering. 
An amusing circumstance occurred in the 
middle of his argument. His client had made © 


SIR THOMAS WILDE. . 97 


him a present of a pair of carriage horses, and one 
day shortly after this event his servant came into 
the breakfast-room with a very long face and told 
his master that Mr. Attwood was dead, at which 
naturally he was much shocked. Upon inquiry, 
however, it turned out that his coachman had 
christened the two horses Small and Attwood, and 
that it was one of these that had departed this 
hfe. 

I remember one occasion illustrative of the 
necessity of adapting punishment to the opinion 
of the public—it was after Wilde had become Chief 
Justice, and he was presiding in the Crown Court 
at the Kingston Assizes. He deferred sentencing 
the prisoners convicted upon the first day until 
the following morning, and then sentenced several 
of them to be flogged ; there was not another con- 
viction during the whole assizes.. He was a very 
pleasant judge to counsel, but inclined to be 
severe to criminals. As is well known, he married 
the morganatic widow of the Duke of Ones 
who, I believe, survived him. 

I met him once after his retirement at Wies- 
baden. He was staying at the Hotel de Quatre 
Saisons, amusingly nicknamed the Quarter Sessions, 
from the number of lawyers that patronised it. 


1 The sentences may have been on a later day ; upon this point my 
memory does not serve me, but I remember well the effect. 


VOL. II. H 


98 EVIL OF UNPOPULAR SENTENCES. 


He was then manifestly in bad health, although I 
did not discover any mental weakness ; he was 
pleased with the attention I was glad to pay him, © 
and rewarded me with much pleasant gossip. He 
had a very great admiration for the talent of 
Mr. Adolphus, and confirmed the view that I 
have already expressed of that gentleman, that, 
but for his temper, he would have become a very 
distinguished member of the bar. Lord Truro 
and Sir Frederick Pollock, whilst poles asunder in 
politics, had been all their lives fast friends; but 
although each had led a life of intense labour, the 
mental results were very different, which may be 
accounted for by Sir Frederick being so polished 
and accomplished a scholar, whilst Lord Truro 
was entirely uneducated. I believe he was the 
uncle of Lord Penzance. ‘There was another very 
great friend of Lord Truro, a man of ability, 
Matthew Davenport Hill, very much of the type of 
Lord Truro himself, and he also was a poignant 
sufferer from a similar malady, tic douloureux. 
‘When Truro was Chancellor he was anxious to 
make Hill a judge, but unfortunately he had got 
into some scrape by disclosing a communication 
intended to be confidential, and the Cabinet put 
-such a pressure upon the Chancellor that he was 
forced to give up his intention, and appointed 
Martin, the son-in-law of his old friend Pollock. 


MATTHEW DAVENPORT HILL. 99 


I do not know whether it was from Truro 
or Pollock that I heard the following incident. 
When they were both at the bar, the latter was 
retained to defend a clergyman in Norfolk for a 
serious, and indeed, although he was out on bail, 
a capital offence, and in a consultation that gentle- 
‘man admitted his guilt to the counsel. Sir 
Frederick felt that this knowledge would embarrass 
his conduct of the defence, especially as it was a 
question of the credit of certain witnesses, and 
requested and obtained permission to give up his 
brief, which came afterwards into the hands of 
Sir Thomas Wilde, to whom the same admission 
was not made, and he obtained an acquittal. 
Pollock had no doubt that it would have been his 
duty, after accepting the retainer, to conduct the 
case, if his client had insisted upon it. 

I never met Lord Truro afterwards, but with 
him and Pollock terminated a generation of great 
lawyers. 


H 2 


JUV es 


CHAPTER IX. 
MR. LANDSEER. 


In a former chapter I have mentioned a meeting 
of literary and theatrical personages, and others 
who delighted in such society, held at the old and 
well-known tavern called the Piazza in Covent 
Garden. They did not assemble very early, 
indeed nowadays they could not have met at all. 
The stern command of policeman A. would have 
barred their entrance. At that time, however, 
taverns as well as clubs were open at all times, and 
the hours chosen by those who frequented the 
assembly in question were generally the small ones. 

Conversation was the order of the day, or 
night, which made it rather remarkable that a 
gentleman who could not hear a word that was 
said should have been one of the most constant 
visitors. This was Mr. Landseer, a brother of 
the celebrated artist, himself an engraver of 
reputation, but unfortunately stone deaf. 

I cannot, however, recall him to my memory 
without feelings of gratitude, if only for the 
pleasure he afforded me upon one or two occasions 
of meeting the eminent artist. I know of no one 


SIR EDWIN LANDSEER. 101 


whose works have for me a greater fascination. 
He has spiritualised animal life, and has given it 
an affinity to the human race, and yet has neither 
destroyed nor altered its natural characteristics. 
We see told upon his canvas the nobility, of 
which in the higher animals so many examples 
have been proved to exist, and in dealing with those 
which fill a humbler space in nature he has created 
a poetry essentially his own. One wonders what 
those two squirrels are saying to each other. 
Evidently they must have discovered a feast of 
filberts, or some other great event in their wood- 
land lives. Sir Edwin was, as far as I could judge 
from the little I saw of him, very unaffected and 
kindly, as indeed from his works he must have 
been, and the following anecdote shows that. he 
had no small sense of humour. 

i had the honour of having him upon one 
occasion as a client, it is as far back as 1862; 
the question involved was undoubtedly one of art, 
although not of such a character as might have 
been expected. The plaintiff’s profession was that 
of a tailor, a very eminent one at the west end of 
London ; and he sued Sir Edwin for the payment 
for a work that he had executed by that gentle- 
man’s order.! It was a coat which Sir Edwin declared 


1 I presume that other items had probably been admitted and 
money paid into court to meet them. 


102 SCENE IN COURT. 


violated every principle of high art, and he refused 
to countenance such a deviation from its true 
principles. The case was tried in the Exchequer, 
before (I believe) Mr. Baron Martin. The plaintiff 
entered the witness-box, and a very distinguished- 
looking personage he was. The coat was produced, 
and the judge suggested that Sir Edwin should try 
it on; he made a wry face, but consented, and took 
off his own upper garment. He then put an arm 
into one of the sleeves of that in dispute, and made 
an apparently ineffectual endeavour to reach the 
other, following it round amidst roars of laughter 
from all parts of the court. It was a common 
jury, and I was told that there was a tailor upon 
it, upon which I suggested that there was a gentle- 
man of the same profession as the plaintiff in 
court who might assist Sir Edwin. This was 
acceded to, and out hopped a little Hebrew slop- 
seller from the Minories, to whom the defendant 
submitted his body. With difficulty he got it into 
the coat, and then stood as if spitted, his back 
one mass of wrinkles. The tableau was truly 
amusing: the indignant plaintiff looking at the 
performance with mingled horror and disgust ; Sir 
Edwin as if he were choking; whilst the jury- 
man, with the air of a connoisseur, was examining 
him and the coat with profound gravity. At last 
the judge, when able to stifle his laughter, ad- 


WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. 103 


dressing the little Hebrew, said, ‘ Well, Mr. Moses, 
what do you say?’ ‘Qh!’ cried he, holding up a 
pair of hands not over clean, and very different from 
those encased in lavender gloves which graced the 
plaintiff. ‘It ish poshitively shocking, my lord; I 
should have been ashamed to turn out shuch a 
thing from my establishment.’ ‘The rest of the jury 
accepted his view, and Sir Edwin, apparently 
relieved from suffocation, entered his own coat 
with a look of relief, which again convulsed the 
court, bowed and departed. 

The next scene, a very pleasant one, not 
in date, but in my memory, that I will present 
to my readers occurred, alas, many years ago! 
and great indeed are the changes that have taken 
place since. A house in the neighbourhood of 
Kilburn, spacious and elegantly furnished; the 
time is early summer, the hour about eight o’clock 
in the evening ; the dinner has been removed from 
the prettily decorated table, and the early fruits 
tempt the guests, to the number of twelve or so, 
who are grouped around it. At the head there 
sits a gentleman no longer in his first youth, but 
still strikingly handsome ; there is something artistic 
about his dress, and there may be a little affectation 
in his manners, but even this may in some people 
be a not unpleasing element. He was our host, 
William Harrison Ainsworth, and whatever may 


104 DUDLEY COSTELLO. 


have been the claims of others, and in whatever 
circles they might move, no one was more genial, 
no one more popular. He had at this time fully 
won his spurs. Jack Sheppard had through his 
sraphic pen become a hero to the masses, and was 
not less popular because very proper people shook 
their heads and exclaimed that it was a very evil. 
example; and not only did the novel pay the 
circulating libraries, but became the subject of a 
very popular drama. Poor Paul Bedford played 
one of the characters—Blueskin—in which he ren- 
dered with great gusto the song of ‘ Jolly Nose.’ 
No one can say that the song of ‘Jolly Nose’ 
was refined, but it laid hold somehow of the 
whistling public. At last, as I have heard, Mrs. 
Keeley made the character of Jack so fascinating 
that the licenser of plays was obliged to stop the 
performance. How well I can remember her 
charming little figure upon the stool in Jack’s 
workshop, and her sweet voice singing the naughty 
sentiment contained in the words, ‘And I'll carve 
my name on the dungeon stone ;’ and winding up 
with ‘ Nix my dolly, pals.’ 

I have travelled away from the pleasant din- 
ner-table, but, before I leave it, there are two 
guests certainly I must not forget; one is Dudley 
Costello, a great ally and intimate friend of our 
host, an indefatigable inditer of pleasant tales 


- POLITENESS. 105 


to various periodicals, good humoured, sociable, 
and with a large stock of amusing conversation. 
In the prime of life, full of spirits, and apparently of 
health, he seemed fully launched upon the path of 
success and fame. Some very short time after 
this I missed the usual signs of his pen, and one 
day not long after this dinner party I was re- 
turning from, I think, Strasburg to Paris, and 
at one of the intermediate stations I saw a ghastly- 
looking object staggering under a carpet bag; I 
went forward to assist, when to my horror I 
recognised the mere skeleton of my poor friend. 
He thought, he said, that he should try some 
waters, but his face told a tale that was only too 
soon verified. I carried in his bag, and pressed 
his hand in bidding adieu, and, although not given 
to sentiment, fancy that I scarcely restrained my 
feelings, and indeed, as I think over the scene, can 
scarcely do so now. 

Opposite to me at the dinner-table of which I 
have given a description sat a good-looking young 
fellow, a member of the same profession as myself, 
got up with infinite care. He was seated next to 
a venerable lady, rattling and shining with dia- 
monds; these two were engaged in the innocent 
occupation of cracking bon-bons and reading the 
mottoes. Harrison Ainsworth, pointing my atten- 
tion to him, said, ‘ He (naming him) will make his 


106 LOLA MONTES. 


way in the world.’ The prophecy has turned out 
correct, and I am bound to say that even now, 
if it would give an old lady pleasure, he would still - 
spell proverbs with her out of pure good nature. 
I frequently visited Ainsworth at a house he 
occupied at Kemp Town, Brighton, but of late 
years have lost sight of him. I am glad to see 
within the last few days, upon the club table, that 
he still figures in the world of literature, and if 
ever he reads these lines, I do not doubt that he 
will remember that pleasant entertamment at 
which he was the accomplished host.+ 

About, or soon after this period, I became 
acquainted with a character very different from — 
any of those who graced the table of Harrison 
Ainsworth. It was a lady, and she had claims to 
celebrity. Her name was Lola Montes, and her 
life had been one of adventure, in the course of 
which it was suggested that she had not been 
particular as to the number of her husbands. She 
was, I believe, of Spanish origin, and certamly 
possessed that country’s style of beauty, with 
much dash of manner, and an extremely outré 
style of dress. She had been upon the stage, and 
attracted the admiration of a monarch, and the 
anger of his subjects. When, subsequently, she 


1 T will not erase the foregoing lines, although the object of them 
has passed away. 


BEAN. | 107 


visited this country, she fascinated a young gentle- 
man named Heald, who married her. It was 
stated that she had been previously married to a 
Captain James. The friends of Mr. Heald made a 
charge against her of bigamy, and it was through 
being consulted upon this occasion that I became 
acquainted with her. She had to appear at 
Marlborough Street Police Court upon two or 
three occasions. I forget whether the charge was 
ultimately abandoned, or whether she left England 
before any result was arrived at. My impression 
was that it could not have been substantiated. 

In the year 1842 a piece of insolence was 
offered to Her Majesty, whilst driving, by a person 
named Bean, a cripple. He contrived to make his 
escape, and his deformity being his most noticeable 
feature, no humpbacked person could escape the 
vigilance of the police, until, fortunately for this 
unhappy race, the real criminal was arrested. He 
was prosecuted for misdemeanour only, and 
convicted, and suffered some period of imprison- 
ment, which apparently cured the miserable | 
desire for notoriety that had alone dictated the 
attempt. He was alive until recently, and might 
be seen at the different wharves from which the 
river steamers were accustomed to start, hawk- 
ing newspapers, in a civil and inoffensive manner. 

Her Majesty exhibited upon the occasion that 


108 CAPTAIN CHARITIE. 


wonderful coolness and self-possession which have 
distinguished her under the most trying circum- 
stances. 

It was from about the date of this trial that 
my business increased at the Central Court and L 
was entrusted with cases of some importance; in 
recalling, however, those years, I am unable to 
remember many personal incidents. I was en- 
gaged in one trial which exhibited, what I have 
already remarked upon, the extreme hesitation of 
Mr. Baron Alderson to permit a conviction in 
capital cases. The prisoner was a very young 
man, named Connor, and the learned judge cer- 
tainly strained every point in his favour. The 
jury were out for several hours, but ultimately 
convicted him, and he was executed. I was also 
concerned for a person named Good, for the 
murder of a woman with whom he was living at 
Wimbledon. He also came to an unfortunate end. 

A Captain Charitie also entrusted me with his 
defence. This was upon an indictment removed 
ito the Court of Queen’s Bench, the charge being 
that he, in conjunction with a director of the 
East India Company, was engaged in selling cadet- 
ships, and unfortunately the case against him was 
fully proved. 

There was another proceeding in which I was 
counsel for a gentleman named Healy, who had 


SEVERE MILITARY PUNISHMENT. 109 


made an imputation upon Mr. Wakley, the coroner 
for Middlesex, for his conduct in a matter which 
I think is not unworthy of being recorded. A 
private soldier belonging to the 7th Hussars had 
been cruelly flogged. He had certainly been 
ouilty of a very grave offence, that of striking 
his corporal with a poker. The sentence was 150 
lashes, which he underwent. He was permitted to 
stagger to the hospital, and there died within a 
few hours. The medical men of the regiment 
certified that his death had not in any way re- 
sulted from the flogging; this was apparently 
absurd, and very discreditable, and it is by no 
means wonderful that a jury, under the direction 
of Mr. Wakley, and after hearing the evidence of 
the very eminent surgeon, Mr. Erasmus Wilson, 
should come to the opposite conclusion, and return 
a verdict accordingly. Some strictures made by 
my client in a medical journal were very severe 
upon Wakley, who moved against him for a 
criminal information, but I was able to show the 
court that the complainant had provoked the 
attack, and the rule was discharged. At the same 
time I consider that the exposure and investigation 
of this affair have been a lasting benefit to the 
community. Such a punishment upon any human 
being is horrible, and naturally directed public at- 
tention to the subject, and, I imagine, has been the 


10. 3 -. FLOGGING. 


means of abolishing the lash both in the army and 
navy. I have already referred to the application 
of it in the instance of crimes attended with — 
violence, and for them it is efficient and proper ; 
the perpetrators of such offences are cowards as 
well as ruffians. Imprisonment creates little if 
any terror in their imagination, probably they are 
well acquainted with gaol life; and according to 
accounts apparently authentic, there are means by 
which its hardships may be alleviated. Itis certain 
that the discipline rarely if ever produces a good 
result, and when an account appears in a news- 
paper of some atrocious act of violence, it is con- 
stantly stated that the perpetrator is a released — 
convict. The lash, however, is viewed by these 
wretches with abject terror, and I am confident 
that the pain they are made to feel is the best 
protection, in the absence of the punishment of 
transportation, that can be afforded to a peaceable 
public. | 


111 


CHAPTER X. 
CHIEF JUSTICES. 


TENTERDEN, Denman, Campbell, Cockburn, have 
each during my connection with the legal pro- 
fession occupied the highest place on the Common 
Law Bench. Each after his own fashion has 
administered justice, and they are remarkable 
instances of an observation I have already made 

of the differences of character exhibited by men 
| filling the same position. Of Tenterden I have 
searcely a recollection; I have seen him, and I 
think of a sour old man, with the manners of a 
pedagogue. The description given of him by Lord 
Campbell, in his ‘ Lives of the Chief Justices,’ con- 
firms my memory in this respect. He makes, how- 
ever, a curious mistake in an anecdote he relates of 
him. Having described his origin, which was being 
the son of a barber at Canterbury, and his beginning 
life as a chorister boy in the cathedral of that city, 
he tells a story that Mr. Justice Richardson, the dis- 
tinguished judge, used to relate. In going the Home 
Circuit with Lord Tenterden the two judges visited 
the cathedral of Canterbury together, when the 


112 MISTAKE OF CAMPBELL. 


Chief Justice, pointing to a singing man in the choir, 
said, ‘ Behold, Brother Richardson, that is the only 
human being I ever envied. When at school in 
this town, we were candidates together for a 
chorister’s place; he obtained it, and if I had 
gained my wish he might have been accompanying 
you as Chief Justice, and pointing me out as his old 
schoolfellow the singing man.’ | 
Now, the fact is, that this story was narrated 
by Baron Richards, and its scene was York 
Cathedral, but whether the fortunate rival of Lord 
Tenterden was present there, and could have been 
pointed out, I do not know. It certainly did not 
occur at Canterbury when the judges were going 
the Home Circuit, as Canterbury is not one of 
the assize towns, and the nearest locality to it is 
Maidstone, which is at a very considerable dis- 
tance, only reachable by posting, at a sacrifice of 
time that the judges were not likely to expend for 
a visit to the cathedral. I do not remember Camp- 
bell going the Home Circuit ; if he did, the blunder 
is unaccountable. I heard a story of the circum- 
stances under which Richards was offered the judge- 
ship by Lord Eldon. He was a Welshman, and 
happening to be in the Court of Chancery, the Chan- 
cellor threw him a slip of paper with these words 
written : ‘ Dear Taffy,— What do you say toa puisne 
Baron?’ I believe that he accepted the offer upon 


COCKBURN. EPs 


the understanding that he was to become Chief 
when a vacancy occurred. Of Denman I have 
said my say, as also of Lord Campbell. The last 
occupant of the office was by no means the least 
remarkable of the four, and his character would 
form a curious study; it is those traits that were 


patent from which alone I have the power of judg- 


ing, for although I knew him, and occasionally asso- 
ciated with him in private, from my earliest years 


_at the bar, I never was on terms of intimacy with 


him ; I more nearly approached it during the last 
three or four years of his life. Cockburn was one 
of those men who, like Erskine (as I have heard), 
although small in person, did not look so. No one 
would for a moment have thought him insignifi- 
eant, and although his face was decidedly plain, it 
had when smiling a peculiar charm. His voice was 
very melodious, of which fact he was a little 
too well aware, and always willing to make the 
most of the effect it was calculated to produce. 
With ladies his manners were deferential, and, if 
gossip was to be believed, had been fully ap- 
preciated. As an advocate he was equal to any 
one I ever heard at the bar. He was fond of 
amusement, and sought it through many sources, 
but he mastered the most complicated facts with 
ease, and his industry never deserted him. He 
exhibited at times a polished vein of sarcasm, 
VOL. Il. I 


114 DEFENCE OF PALMERSTON. 


great skill in analysis, and, upon occasions that. 
called them forth, powers of impassioned oratory. 
He was constantly pitted against Thesiger, no un- 
worthy opponent, and fully maintained his position, 
and in some notable cases obtained unexpected 
success. I have already mentioned the trials of 
MacNaghten and Palmer. The same results would 
probably have been attained by much inferior 
advocacy in both these cases, but few men at 
that time in the lead could have steered with 
such consummate skill. It perhaps may seem that 
with Follett at the bar I place Cockburn too high 
in the scale of advocacy; it may be so, but my 
experience of the latter distinguished counsel does 
not furnish me with examples by which to modify 
my judgments. Cockburn’s reply in MacNaghten’s 
case was described by Cresswell, one of the pre- 
siding judges, as the finest speech that he had 
ever heard. Cockburn became member for South- 
ampton, and very soon made his mark in the 
critical arena of the House of Commons, and upon 
the occasion of the great debate of June 24, 
1850, impugning Lord Palmerston’s foreign policy, 
he was put forward to defend it. I remember 
very well his speech ; it took the House by storm, 
and in no small degree conduced towards the 
victory obtained by the minister. From that 
“period Cockburn moved on quickly, filling 


DEATH OF PEEL. T15 


successively the offices of Solicitor and Attorney 
General, and ultimately those of Chief Justice of 
the Common Pleas and of England. I suspect 
that even with this flood of success and accumula- 
tion of honours, a lingering disappointment re- 


_ mained that he had not grasped the seals. <A true 


appreciation would not be formed of his qualities 
as an advocate and the versatility of his mind 
if I did not refer to his practice in the committees 
before he entered Parliament. In election in- 
quiries.it might naturally be expected that he 
would be successful, as they were peculiarly of 
a character for which he had already shown his 
capacity; but he was equally fortunate in the 
management of private bills, and fought the famous 
fight of the narrow against the broad gauge, 
supported by Lock, against Austin and Thesiger, 
backed by Brunel and a host of scientific talent. 

The triumph of Palmerston was followed by a 
black day for England. The most trusted of our 
statesmen perished through an accident, and it 
was long before the nation ceased to deplore the 
death of Sir Robert Peel. 

I cannot assign to Sir Alexander Cockburn 
as a judge the almost unqualified praise that I 
have done as an advocate. He carried naturally 
the qualities that had distinguished him in that 
capacity to the bench, and exercised them without 


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116 COCKBURN AS CHIEF JUSTICE. 


sufficient discretion. It is in my judgment a 
great mistake to think that a judge ought to 
keep back his own opinions from a jury, but they 
ought to be conveyed calmly and without passion, 
and after due consideration, but unfortunately Sir 
Alexander Cockburn was extremely impression- 
able, and constantly at the outset of a case would 
express with great confidence an opinion which he 
subsequently would not have been sorry to recall. 
The evil result, however, had been frequently ac- 
complished before he was able to correct it. It 
must also be admitted that he too often sacrificed 
matter for effect, and sentiment captivated him 
more than the graver questions involved in a suit. . 
I cannot say that these were small faults, but I 
never doubted that he was anxious to do justice, 
and his manner in doing it was usually courteous ; 
and notwithstanding his occasional impetuosity he 
gave his unswerving attention to any inquiry that 
he was presiding over. A more thoroughly 
humane man never occupied the seat of justice, 
and he afforded counsel every assistance and 
consideration; it is impossible that a greater 
contrast could exist in this respect than between 
him and his predecessor. 

Cockburn was verging upon eighty years old 
when he died, but to the last exhibited no fail- 
ure of intellect,-or, so far as I could observe, 


DINNER AT COCKBURN’S. 117 


of physical power. After sitting in court the 
whole of the day he was to be seen leaving the 
private door, and marching off with as sprightly 
an air and as active a gait as if he had only 
realised the half of his years. He lived as long 
as [remembered him in Hertford Street, Mayfair, 
and there I have seen him surrounded by books, 
evidently occupied by some engrossing literary 
labour. I have already alluded to his acquaint- 
ance with modern languages, and I believe that 
he was an accomplished classical scholar. He 
presided, after the death of Lord Campbell, at 
Serjeants’ Inn, where he added greatly to the 
conviviality of the table; and when the affairs of 
the society were wound up, I ventured, without 
any sanction from my brethren, to send him the 
remainder of some old port wine, which he greatly 
enjoyed, and which I have shared at his table. 
Upon the occasions that I dined there he was 
extremely entertaining, not unwilling to recount 
former triumphs in the profession, and certainly 
affording me amusement in doing so. I reminded 
him once of a painful incident to which we were 
parties. 

We were engaged to dine with one of his 
oldest friends, a gentleman named Phinn, a 
barrister by profession. He had held high office 
in the Admiralty, but had quitted it, and was 


118 VISIT TO COCKBURN. 


practising at the Parliamentary bar. He resided 
in chambers in St. James’s Street, and on the 
occasion of which I speak, Cockburn and myself 
met at the door, and learnt to our horror that our 
expected host had just failen down dead. The 
account that we received was that he was going 
upstairs to dress, that a loud shriek was heard, 
and that he was found extended and lifeless. 

I called in Hertford Street one Sunday three 
weeks before the death of Sir Alexander, and found 
him as usual in his library hard at work. He 
was engaged in a work upon venery, of which 
a portion had already been published. He seemed 
well in health, though not in his usual spirits, but 
he spoke of the opening of the New Law Courts 
as if he anticipated being present. He presided 
after this in his court, and did not show, as far as 
I observed, any signs of his approaching end. In 
the account that I have given of the trials in 
which Risk Allah was the plaintiff, I have in- 
timated my opinion that he took a prejudiced 
view in his favour, and I shall hereafter have 
to comment upon his demeanour in the pro- 
ceedings against the claimant to the Tichborne 
baronetcy and estates. It is also impossible to 
approve of the tone that he adopted in his con- 
troversy with Lord Penzance, whilst the temperate 
and dignified bearing of this latter judge deserves 


MR. WALSH. — 119 


warm admiration; but in these proceedings the 
industry and research of the Chief Justice were 
signally exhibited. 

Whatever were his faults they were those of 
impulse, and directed more to the support of the 
weak than in favour of harshness or oppression, 
and under his auspices the Court of Queen’s Bench 
sustained its dignity, and commanded the respect 
of the public and the profession. <A pleasant 
figure has disappeared from society, and a great 
name is erased from the annals of our times. 

When first I met the subject of the above 
sketch, there was a cotemporary of his, moving 
in the same circles, also accomplished and popular. 
His name was Walsh. When I was in the lowest 
class at St. Paul’s School he was in the highest, 
and when I joined the Home Circuit he was 
_ leader of the Kent Sessions. He married a lady 
of mature age, but possessing considerable for- 
tune. When, many years after meeting him in 
London society, I was staying in Florence, I heard 
that he had a villa there, and sought him out. 
He was in a deplorably hypochondriacal state, and 
nothing seemed capable of rousing him. Some 
time after this I was taken professionally to the 
house of a medical man in the Finchley Road, 
to assist in the examination of an alleged lunatic, 
and there I found my poor friend, hopelessly and 


120 LUNATICS. 


miserably insane. I have every reason to believe 
that he was treated with skill and kindness, 
although I utterly disapprove of private lunatic 
asylums, it being naturally to the advantage of 
their keepers that the patient should remain 
under their care. 

It is not many years ago that I became ac- 
quainted with a pregnant example of this evil. I was 
asked by a member of the bar to visit his brother 
at a private lunatic asylum of high class. He was 
confined there contrary to his brother’s wishes, who 
did not think he was judiciously treated or required 
confinement. The family were wealthy, and a large 
sum was paid for the maintenance of the gentleman 
in question. I accordingly went down, and, calling 
at the house and sending in my card, requested 
permission to see the patient. I was told that the 
proprietor was not at home, and that in his 
absence I could not be permitted to do so, although 
I produced the brother’s authority. I insisted, 
and threatened to move the Court of Queen’s 
Bench if the refusal was persisted in, and at last 
I was admitted, and found the patient lodged in a 
very handsome suite of apartments, opening out 
upon some beautiful grounds. He made no com- 
plaint of his treatment, and was manifestly under 
the influence of insane impulses; but my astonish- 
ment was extreme, upon looking at the literature 


CHARLES READE. 121 


with which he was supplied, to find that it was of 
a character eminently calculated to foster the 
peculiar form of disease to which he was subject. 
An enquiry was subsequently held before a master 
in lunacy; the result was that he was released 
from the asylum, and put under the charge of a 
skilled person, and, subject to such superintendence, 
permitted his liberty. His removal was opposed 
by the proprietor, who lost by it a net profit of at 
least 600/. per annum. 

My old friend Charles Reade has described in 
works of fiction, with great power and ability, the 
evils that may arise from these institutions when 
in unscrupulous hands; and the existence of such 
men as Dr. Tuke, and others whom I could name, 
whose sense of honour and general character 
place them above all suspicion, does not in my 
judgment make the system one to be trusted or 
approved of, and I am afraid that the protection 
intended by the law to be afforded by imdepen- 
dent opinions is too often imperilled by a near con- 
nection existing between the proprietors of these 
asylums and the medical men who certify for the 
reception of persons supposed to be lunatics. 

The whole subject of insanity, as I have else- 
where endeavoured to show, deserves supervision 
—the nature of it, its obligations, and its treat- 


122 INSANITY. 


ment; and if the statistics upon it are correct 
—and it is true that of late years there has been 
a great increase of the malady—no social evil 
better deserves a thorough legislative investiga- 
tion. 


CHAPTER XI. 
EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE. 


Tue beautiful neighbourhood of Matlock, in 
Derbyshire, was kept for some years in a state of 
excitement by local circumstances that created a 
romantic interest. | 

_ They were the subject of various legal pro- 
ceedings. The House of Lords, the Court of 
Chancery, Lord Chief Justice Erle and Lord Chief 
Justice Pollock, had all tried their hands at a 
satisfactory solution, and at the end of eight years 
they reached the Court of Queen’s Bench, where, 
with the assistance of a respectable complement 
of counsel and solicitors, and an intelligent jury, 
directed most ably by the Chief Justice of 

England, they were ultimately disposed of. 

| George Nuttall lived the whole of his life at 
Matlock, his native town. He was a land sur- 
veyor, much respected, and must have been a 
good business man, as at his death, which happened 
at the comparatively early age of fifty-four, he 
was possessed of landed property to the amount of 
nearly 3,000/. per annum, and some 10,000/. in 


124 DEATH OF TESTATOR. 


the Funds. He had no near relations. In Septem- 
ber 1854 he had made his will. His mode of 
doing this was peculiar. A Mr. Newbold wa 
his solicitor and also an intimate friend; this 
gentleman prepared it, but the testator copied it in 
duplicate. He was an illiterate man, and in what 
purported to be his copies, and there was no 
suggestion against their authenticity, were to be 
found several instances of words wrongly spelt. 
I wish to avoid as far as possible technical details, 
and it will be sufficient to say that the bulk of the 
property was left to John Nuttall, a cousin, and 
foreman in the service of a contractor in London. 

John Else, the brother-in-law of a person 
living with the testator, at the time of his death, 
in the capacity of housekeeper, was an assistant 
overseer and bailiff of the County Court at 
Matlock; he had been employed by the testator in 
collecting accounts. 

The testator died in March 1856, having 
been for some time before his death in an ex- 
tremely feeble state of health. The duplicate 
wills were beyond question placed in a cupboard 
in his bedroom; and there was also no doubt 
that two or three days before his death he was 
very anxious to get to that cupboard, but unable 
from feebleness to do so or explain his wishes. 

Immediately after his death, one copy of a 


CODICILS PRODUCED. 135 


will was produced, which was authentic; a second 
copy, also authentic, was found before the funeral, 
with an interlineation which was subsequently 
disputed, although not at the time, by John 
Nuttall, who had principally benefited by the will, 
and whose estate was lessened by the terms of the 
interlineation, and probably, but for subsequent 
events, it would have passed without challenge. 
This was the state of affairs on April 21 
following the death, when John Nuttall himself 
died, leaving his property to his children. A 
fortnight after his death, Else produced a codicil, 
which he declared that he had found amongst the 
papers of the original testator; it was dated 
October 27, 1855, and purported to be entirely in 
the testator’s handwriting. Eight months after 
the production of this codicil, Else produced 
another, which he said he found in a little 
penny account-book, pinned on to one of the 
leaves; it was dated January 6, 1856. There is 
no doubt that there was much improbability in 
the story of both these discoveries, and moreover 
there were misspellings in both the documents 
to which no similar ones were to be found in the 
writing of the testator, and it may generally be 
stated that Else and his belongings derived benefit 
from both of them. Nevertheless there was not any- 
thing that was not susceptible of some explanation, 


126 EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNT. » 


which, however, it would only encumber the main 
features of the tale to relate. 

Another nine months elapsed, and then Else, 
-according to his own account, made a most as- 
tounding discovery, brought about by means 
almost miraculous. 3 

He had gone to reside in the testator’s former 
house, at the back of which there was a yard, and 
on one side of it there was a flight of steps, leading 
up to a hay-loft, at the farther end of which was 
a small room used as a lumber or tool house. 

Into this loft on October 9, 1857, it moved 
the spirit of Else, accompanied by a boy named 
Campion, to ascend, and it struck him that the 
window of the lumber room wanted cleaning, and so 
he told the boy to clean it, which he accordingly 
proceeded to do, but not being able to reach high 
enough, Else laid hold of the window-sill to pull 
himself up, when the boarding gave way, and dis- 
closed a small hole in the wall, in which was an 
earthenware jar. In the jar was a small bag con- 
taining twenty sovereigns, and also another codicil, 
substantially giving the bulk of the property to 
Else, like the two former ones, and containing in- 
stances of misspelling dissimilar to any occurring 
in the genuine writing of the testator. It will be 
observed that the different codicils were found by 
Else in the order of their respective dates. One 


LEGAL DIFFERENCES. 127 


circumstance I think ought to be stated. New- 
bold, the solicitor, who had died before the last 
trial-took place, had expressed a belief which, 
although not in positive terms, was not altogether 
antagonistic to the authenticity of the codicils. 

There were a number of minute facts—argu- 
ments about handwriting, the relations existing 
between the different parties, and their opposing 
interests ; but I think I have told enough to make 
the general reader understand the proceedings 
which occurred after the production by Else of 
these remarkable documents. 

The parties conflicting were the representatives 
of the original residuary legatee on the one 
side, and John Else practically, though associated 
with another person named Cresswell, on the 
other. 

The duplicate wills being admitted, the ques- 
tion was raised as to the validity of the three 
codicils, and a suit was instituted in Chancery for 
this purpose, the result of which was that an 
‘issue was directed by the Master of the Rolls to 
try this question. It came on at the summer 
assizes for Derby in 1859, before Lord Chief 
Justice Erle and a special jury, who found in 
favour of the codicils. The Master of the Rolls 
was not satisfied, and directed another trial, 

which came on before Chief Baron Pollock, at 


128 TRIAL BEFORE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN. 


the spring assizes at Derby in 1860, and then 
the jury reversed the former verdict, finding that 
the codicils were forgeries. An application was 
then made on the opposite side to the Master 
of the Rolls, but he was satisfied and refused to 
interfere. Next came an appeal to the Lords 
Justices, who were divided in opinion; and then 
there was a reference from them to the House of 
Lords, who decided for a new trial, and directed 
that it should take place in London, before the 
Lord Chief Justice of England and a special jury, 
and upon this occasion the counsel engaged were, 
for Else, the real plaintiff, Mr. Karslake, Q.C., 
Mr. Field, Q.C., and Mr. Hannen, the present judge 
of the Probate Court; for the defendants, the re- 
presentatives of the will, Mr. Serjeant Hayes, 
myself, and Mr. Wills. 

It will be obvious, from the slight sketch that 
I have given of the circumstances, that the case 
of the plaintiff depended upon the truth of Else 
himself and the four witnesses who severally were 
pledged to having witnessed the successive codicils, 
and here was introduced another element. It 
was alleged that Buxton and Gregory, the wit- 
nesses to the first codicil, had been tampered with. 
Adams was dead, but his deposition upon the last 
trial was read, and it supported the codicils to which 
his name was attached. Nothing appeared against 


MR. KARSLAKE. 129 


his character. He was a surgeon, and really could 
not be mistaken, and moreover had no apparent 
interest inthe matter. Knowles’s son took a legacy 
under the second codicil. Knowles himself was ex- 
amined upon the trial at the Guildhall, and swore 
to his own and Adams’s signatures. I cross-ex- 
amined him, but failed to elicit anything that in 
‘my own judgment seriously affected his credit ; and 
I confess that the effect upon my mind was that, 
standing by themselves, notwithstanding the pre- 
varication of Buxton and Gregory, these four wit- 
nesses did present a formidable case in favour of 
the codicils. 

As Mr. Karslake put it with point and judg- 
ment, ‘ Direct and positive evidence was to be met 
by apparent improbabilities, and by speculations 
as to handwriting, the codicils being all of them 
alleged to be the testator’s own.’ 

Sir Alexander Cockburn prided himself greatly 
upon his discernment in matters of handwriting, 
not altogether without justice; but it was with 
him a favourite subject, and he seized upon it 
with avidity, and dissected it at length. He found 
and pointed out dissimilarities between the ad- 
mitted and contested signatures, and also dissimi- 
larities in style. The misspellings also were 
pointed out by him, and strangely differed from 
those proved to exist in documents written by 

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130 MR. SERJEANT HAYES. 


the testator; but although these were very re- 
markable, still this observation might be made: 
how was it that Else, who was perfectly acquainted 
with the testator’s handwriting, and with the 
ordinary blunders contained in it, and having 
plenty of time to prepare the documents, fell into 
such transparent errors? Handwriting is a dan- 
gerous element upon which to rest a case; the 
evidence of what are called experts is viewed with 
no great confidence. Juries distrust it, and in this 
particular action I did not quite agree with the 
opinion expressed by the Lord Chief Justice as to 
the dissimilarity. 

Mr. Serjeant Hayes took, in my opinion, the 
right course in dwelling upon the improbabilities 
of the story, which he did with great ingenuity 
and humour. He was not a powerful speaker, 
and not equal to Mr. Karslake, who upon this 
occasion fully supported his reputation, and was 
most justly complimented by Sir Alexander Cock- 
burn for the mode in which he had conducted the 
case; but Serjeant Hayes possessed a very acute 
mind, and was very droll in some parts of his 
speech. I cannot forbear quoting that portion 
of it which referred to the discovery of the last 
codicil, and was received with roars of laughter. 
I copy it from a pamphlet, published by a Mr. 
Keene of Derby, and from which I have refreshed 
my memory upon other matters in the case :— 


ee 


HUMOROUS DESCRIPTION. 131 


‘Then as to the third codicil found in the jar 
in the hole in the wall. ‘ What’s that,” said Else, 


_ “what’s that in the jar?” Why a codicil to be 


sure! What else could it be but a codicil, in a 
jar in a hole in the wall? Of course it was a 
codicil. Why, but for this remarkable discovery 
it might not have been found:at all, at all events 
until the house was pulled down a century hence. 
What a place for a man of business to put his 
last will in!’ 

Serjeant Hayes then proceeded to state, what 
was subsequently proved, that during the testator’s 
lifetime an iron vice weighing 60 lbs. had been 
screwed over the window board in which the jar 
containing the codicil was placed, and which must 
have been unscrewed by the testator whilst suffer- 
ing from a most serious abscess in the back. The 
Serjeant then proceeded thus: ‘ Why, imagination 
can scarcely go beyond this story. One blessing 
of the Chancery proceedings has been that they 
have stopped the finding of codicils. But for them 
a fourth must have been found—it must have 
come. The second and third had each been found 
after nine months, the usual period of gestation ; 
but perhaps, as there was so little of the property 
left to be still disposed of, this might have been 
only a seven months’ codicil. It was certainly 
difficult to conceive where it could have been 

K 2 


132 7 SUMMING-UP. 


found ; one could hardly imagine a more obscure 
place for secreting it. Perhaps, however, in Job 
Knowles’s quarry, while his men were blasting the 
rock with gunpowder, of course in some fissure 
Else may have seen an antediluvian toad sitting 
on something, and said “ What is that?” Why, 
what could it be but a codicil? However, 
thanks be to heaven! no more codicils had been 
found.’ ? 

The Lord Chief Justice summed up the case 
with admirable perspicacity, but, as I expected he 
would, dealt very strenuously upon the evidence 
afforded by the handwriting, not, however, neg- 
lecting to make forcible comments upon other 
parts of the case; and the jury without much 
hesitation found a verdict for the defendants, which 
as it turned out put the existing codicils at rest 
for ever, and no further discoveries astonished the 
world, although there are some still living who 
shake their heads and express disbelief in the con- 
clusion arrived at. 

I have in a former chapter called attention to 
the fact that crime, like other incidents in the his- 
tory of nations, repeats itself, and this remark may 
apply to all descriptions of it; I have myself recently 
been engaged in a case that brought forcibly to my 
mind the great Derby will case, and which illus- 


1 Knowles was in occupation of a quarry. 


SIMILAR CASE. 133 


trates one at all events of the remarks I have made 
as to the distrust juries have in the evidence of 
handwriting. Here the plaintiff set up three docu- 
ments ; they were promissory notes, and there were 
three witnesses, who could not be mistaken, and 
who swore to the signature being that of a 
person since dead, and that they had seen him 
sign them. In this respect the evidence was pro- 
bably of more weight than that of the attesting 
witnesses to Nuttall’s alleged codicils. The docu- 
ments in question had been, as alleged, executed 
by this gentleman eight years before, and he being 
dead, there was no direct contradiction to the story 
of the plaintiff. They had been kept during all 
this time in a receptacle as eccentric in its character 
as the boarding of the window-sill, namely, in a 
cash-box at the shop of a kind of general dealer, 
who was one of the witnesses to the signature, but 
had no apparent interest in the case. Strangely 
enough, the stamps of the bills in two instances had 
the dates erased, which was accounted for by their 
contact with old coms, which might have rubbed 
against them ; but what was still more odd, it was 
the date only that had disappeared, the outer rim, 
which was the highest part of the stamp, being 
uneflaced. At the time that the deceased was 
supposed to have signed the notes, which amounted 
to 1,250/., and for which he only received 500/., 
he was in abundant funds. 


134 VERDICT. 


An action was brought by the drawees against 
the executors, and was tried before Mr. Baron 
Huddleston. I was counsel for the defence, and 
confess that in my judgment the evidence as to 
the handwriting was conclusive against the claim. 
I never witnessed discrepancies so apparent, and 
Mr. Chabot, the experienced judge of handwriting, 
pointed out many with great clearness, in addi- 
tion to those discoverable by the most ordinary 
observer. The learned Baron also was obviously 
of a similar opinion, but the jury nevertheless 
were discharged without giving a verdict, there 
beimg eleven of them for the plaintiff. Upon a 
second trial, before the Lord Chief Justice, very 
little prominence was given to the evidence of 
writing, and Chabot was not called, but the utter 
improbability of the story was mainly relied upon, 
the result being a verdict, after little consideration 
by the jury, for the defendants. 

Whether I am right in supposing that the 
different tactics obtained this result I cannot say, 
but there is no doubt that if a branch of evidence 
distasteful to a jury is made too prominent, it fre- 
quently leads to their attention being distracted 
from facts that in themselves are sufficient to sup- 
port the conclusion contended for. 


135 


CHAPTER XII. 
AN APOLOGY TO MY READERS. 


I HAVE already mentioned the fact that when first 
I began a record of some of the events of my 
life, I did so for amusement, and with no idea of 
publishing; and since I have commenced the 
task with a view of submitting the result to 
the public, I have frequently wavered, and almost 
determined to abandon it. I have feared that 
my personal anecdotes might be deemed too tri- 
vial, and my professional ones too dull. I have 
also felt that the contents of many of my chapters 
greatly exceed the limits that the title of the work 
would seem to justify, also that I have presented 
opinions that can scarcely be deemed of interest to 
the general public, and in one or two instances I may 
be accused of introducing matters that amount 
almost to treatises. Difficulties also have presented 
themselves, which, if my pages had remained in my 
own custody, would not have been of importance, 
but for which when I offer them to.the public 1 
am bound to apologise. I rarely kept a diary, 
and only interjectionally, at long intervals and for 


136" > MYSELF, 


short periods, and then only of private matters ; 
and as I believe my mind is naturally of an irregular 
type, the circumstances that come into it during 
the progress of my work refuse to maintain any 
order, and defy every endeavour to preserve the 
dates. This may not be accepted as an excuse for 
events of one era tumbling against those of an 
entirely different period, and if I were one of the 
industrious classes I might sit down and rearrange 
what I have written ; but if I did contrive to write 
a book orderly, and in accordance with rule, my 
identity would be lost, and so if my details are 
confusing I must throw myself upon the mercy of 
my readers, and ask them to pity my infirmities. 
In the pursuit of my task I have also found 
myself limited by the fact that the details of 
many of the cases | have been engaged in might 
give pain to some persons who are living, a result 
which I have felt bound to avoid. 

The above lines are a proof of how incurable 
is my disposition. They ought to have been at 
the commencement, and here they are thrust into 
the middle of the book; but then a lengthy 
preface terrifies most readers, and I think it pru- 
dent to avoid an element that might deter people 
at the outset. 

One entry I have found under the date of 
January 10, 1838: ‘Called on Miss Whitcombe, 


ENTRY FROM OLD DIARY. TA7 


afterwards with her upon the Roneys. Dined at 
Sir Charles Forbes’s. Evening party at Levien’s. 
Met Boz—looks quitea boy. His sister was there ; 
she sang beautifully, is pretty, and I should think 
clever. Also met Mrs. Dodd, a very beautiful 
woman. Hard frost.’ 

Miss Whitcombe was the sister of Lady Roney, 
the wife of Sir Patrick Cusack Roney, one of my 
earliest friends. Both these ladies were singularly 
beautiful. Lady Roney died early ; Miss Whit- 
combe married a distinguished Indian officer, 
causing me a period of extreme depression. 

Sir Charles Forbes was a very wealthy mer- 
chant and director of the East India Company. 
He lived in a large house in Fitzroy Square, and 
my father was intimate with him. He was a man 
noted for his benevolence, and amongst many 
acts of kindness he gave a younger brother of 
mine an assistant-surgeoncy in the Company’s 
service. My brother was a very good-looking 
young fellow, and unfortunately, as it turned out, 
very susceptible. A lady and her daughter went 
out in the same ship, the latter being engaged to 
be married to an officer of rank. I fancy she 
looked with no unfavourable eye upon the young 
assistant-surgeon. The mother was prudent and 
said nothing whilst on board, but immediately upon 
landing gave a hint to the colonel of his regiment, 


138 UNFORTUNATE ATTACHMENT. 


which resulted in my brother being sent to Scinde, 
where he caught a fever which ultimately laid the 
seeds of a premature death. 

Mrs. Dodd was one of the handsomest women 
in London. She lived with her husband in 
Montagu Square, where they extended great 
hospitality. 

Oh these diaries, which I have come upon by 
mere accident! Here is another entry, earlier it 
must be than the last, but I have only the leaf, and 
the date 1s torn off. I record the return of a ring 
from a pretty Irish girl, and my abandonment 
to utter despair. She was the daughter of a very 
eminent solicitor in Dublin, and afterwards 
married an officer, who at the time was aide-de- 
camp to the Commander-in-Chief. She died of con- 
sumption within six months of her marriage. It 
was upon the occasion of a visit to her family that 
I saw Dublin for the first and only time. At this 
period I had no means and but shadowy prospects, 
and her father acted wisely in putting an end to 
an unpromising engagement. Her brother is an 
officer of distinction, whom I have often met since, 
and with whom I have always been upon terms of 
intimacy. And now, reader mine, I shall exhume 
no more domestic histories, and have only recorded 
these to show that my life has not always been 
devoted to the engrossing studies of the law. 


THE REV. DR. CROLY. 139 


Another entry, however, I will refer to, as it 
mentions the name of a gentleman who at the time 
filled some space in public history; I allude to 
the Rev. Dr. Croly. He was a popular preacher 
at, I think, St. Saviour’s Church, Southwark, and 
was the author of different works, amongst others 
a novel called ‘ Salathiel.’ 

My father and myself were dining at the house 
of a Mr. Stutfield, a Middlesex magistrate. He 
lived in very good style at Clapton. The doctor 
was engaged at that time in the persecution of 
Alderman Gibbs, whose conscience enabled him to 
bear it with philosophy. It must be remarked that 
conscience does vary very considerably in different 
people. The note I find is in these words: ‘ Met 
Dr, Croly ; a brute ’—and such is my remembrance 
of him—‘ noisy, self-asserting, and maintaining the 
whole talk at the table, the greater part of it con- 
sisting of boasts of his own doings. A little meek- 
faced lady sat next to me, viewing him with a look 
of ineffable disgust, and whispering now and again 
to me at the end of one of his romances, “ Not a 
word of truth init.” I found out afterwards that 
this was his wife.’ 

I have not mentioned that through the nomi- 
nation of the Duke of Wellington I had become 
a magistrate of the Tower Liberty, and I suppose 
I still hold that dignified position. My father 


a 
140 TOWER LIBERTY SESSIONS. 


was chairman, but there never was anything to do. 
I heard that there once was a case tried there, 
and a difficulty arose from there being no Testa- 
ment upon the premises, but now the jurisdiction 
‘is engulfed in the Middlesex Sessions. When 
Alderman Gibbs became Lord Mayor I dined, on 
November 9, at the Guildhall, but it was a stupid 
dinner, as there is no doubt he was in very bad 
odour, and few of the Ministers attended. 

I have lately, and since I wrote the first of 
these volumes, read recollections and reflections 
by my old friend Planché. He naturally refers 
to many of those whom I have met and given 
my impressions of, and also, as he was an acute 
observer, if my opinions are correct, there must be 
a sameness between our accounts. I hope that this 
will not destroy any interest that may otherwise 
have been created. I am inclined to think that 
my description of Thackeray’s personal appearance 
must have been founded upon seeing him at a later 
date than I imagined to be the case, as Plancheé 
describes him as tall and slight at what would be 
the same period. He confirms my view of his 
character. I was much struck by his sketch of 
Billy Dunn, so entirely confirmatory of my 
remembrance. I was, however, surprised at his 
assigning the palm of beauty to Mrs. Robinson 
amongst all with whom he had associated, as he 


g 


MADAME VESTRIS. 141 


has often told me that there never had been a- 
being so lovely as Madame Vestris, and judging 
by the fascination that she exercised over so 
many this account must be near reality; true it is 
that the brilliancy of her mind and variety of 
her accomplishments gave zest to her charms. 
Amongst those who worshipped at her shrine was 
one whom I just remember, an elegant gentleman, 
and courted guest in all societies. Strangely, for 
the period in which he lived, he was a ‘ Radical,’ 
but though his opinions were considered ‘ uncom- 
monly low,’ no one could deny the refinement 
with which they were expressed. He and Wakley 
were returned after the Reform Bill as members 
for the borough of Finsbury. 

They were opposed by that hard-headed old 
Scotchman, Mr. Serjeant Spankie, whom I have 
already mentioned. Jom Duncombe was not 
famous for paying his debts, and Wakley was 
accused of having burnt his house to cheat an - 
Insurance Company. <A bon-mot of the Serjeant’s 
is recorded by Mr. Greville in his memoirs; it was 
old then, and so I am only following an illustrious 
example in repeating it. Spankie, canvassing an 
elector, was told that he had promised to vote for 
his two opponents. ‘ Well,’ said he, ‘I only hope 
you may have one for a debtor, and the other for 
a tenant.’ Spankie, after he had passed the 


wf 


142 SERJEANT SPANKIE’S MARRIAGE. 


meridian of life, married a really very. charming 
young lady. This event was celebrated by the poet 
laureate of the Home Circuit in the following ~ 


distich :— 
When Miss Smith was twenty 
She had lovers in plenty ; 
When Miss Smith got older 
Her lovers got colder ; 
Then came Serjeant Spankie, 
And Miss Smith said Thankie.! 


My recollection of Tom Duncombe is of a 
tallish, good-looking man, dressed in a blue coat 
with brass buttons, and a collar reaching half- 
way up hisneck. This was the fashionable costume 
of the period; his head, however, had its full 
complement of brains, as the following anecdote 
will testify. There was a certain individual, his 
name and place of abode are alike immaterial; 
he was collector of some portion of his Majesty’s 
revenue; he was also the collector of autographs 
bearing a stamp, of which he possessed several 
specimens presented to him by the honourable 
member for Finsbury before he was elected for 
that borough. After that occurrence it was 
found impossible to induce Mr. Duncombe to 
treat his handwriting with proper respect, and so 
the individual in question hit upon a means of 


1 T have not published the real name, but the description given of 
the young lady’s waning attractions was much opposed to the fact. 


: 
| 


i] 
HORACE CLAGGETT. 143. 


persuasion which was very unlucky for himself 
as it turned out. The honourable member lived 


in the neighbourhood of Westminster, and one 


afternoon when starting upon his Parliamentary 
duties he was confronted by some half-dozen men 
encased in boards, with the announcement upon 
them that the possessor of certain documents 


bearing the signature ‘Thomas Duncombe’ was 


willing to part with them to the highest bidder. 
This gentleman proceeded calmly to the House 
of Commons, and, impelled as he said by the inte- 
rest he took in the application of public moneys, 
moved for a return of such of the king’s taxes as 
had been collected and not paid over. The motion, 
being seconded, was carried as a matter of course. 
This was by no means convenient to the inventor 
of the boards, and a catastrophe ensued that led 


to their disappearance, and the patriotic member 


was never again troubled to take possession of the 
documents bearing his signature. 


Another of the devoted admirers of Madame 


Vestris was Horace Claggett. He was in some 


crack regiment, and when I knew him was past 
middle age, but handsome still. His finances 
did not accord with disinterested love, and he 
discarded the drama and went in for matrimony 
with a Miss Day, who was in some way connected 
with the firm of Day and Martin, and who had 


144 MR. AND MRS. FRANK MATTHEWS. 


many thousand charms besides. She yielded to his 
attractions and accepted his suit. He had a rival 
for her hand, an officer in a Dragoon regiment, 
who was rejected; on this becoming known to 
his comrades, they chalked up next morning on 
the door of his quarters, ‘Try Warren’s.’ ! 

I never met Madame Vestris in private life, 
and the last time I saw her was at the Central 
Court, when she was obliged to prosecute a 
servant for theft. Her appearance then had 
oreatly changed, and she had an affection of the 
nerves of the face which created the appearance of 
distortion. I have heard that she was a woman of 
great kindness of disposition, and beloved by those 
associated with her, of both sexes. Planché has 
made an account of her different .managements 
and successes a labour of love, the perusal of 
which will fully reward those readers who take an 
interest in the drama. He was also intimately 
acquainted, not only with herself, but with the 
brilhant company that surrounded her and aided 
in her performances, and in his work many amusing 
anecdotes will be found. 

I knew Frank Matthews and his wife, both 
clever comedians. He was younger than his name- 
sake, but used to play old men to the sprightly 
youths of the latter favourite. 


1 Another famous blacking manufacturer. 


CHAPTER XIII. 


| THE MAYOR OF CORK. 
THERE are some events that occur which defy 
every effort of reason and common sense to under- 
‘stand, and it was to a combination of these that I 
‘was indebted for the honour conferred upon me of 
being appointed to act as counsel to the House of 
Commons. 
Early in the year 1869 his Royal Highness the ~ 
Duke of Edinburgh was upon a tour, and was 
visiting our colony of Australia, and whilst there 
was fired at by an Irishman of the name of 
O’Farrell. A more wanton piece of ruffianism was 
never known. In the different attempts to assassi- 
nate distinguished people there have usually been 
causes, real or imaginary, actuating excitable minds, 
founded upon a notion of injury or mistaken sense 
of patriotism. But this attempt simply represented 
ruffianism without a redeeming trait, and probably, 
when it became known, such was the almost uni-— 
| versal opinion. Z 
Certainly amongst reasonable beings it would 
have been assumed that nothing more degraded 
VOL. II. Bae Li : 


146 SEDITIOUS CONDUCT OF THE MAYOR. 


could be produced in a eivilised state. Those, how- 
ever, who entertained that opinion turned out to 
be mistaken. Another Irishman, envious of his 
countryman’s reputation, was determined to surpass 
it if he could do so with safety to his person, and 
accordingly Mr. Daniel O’Sullivan, Mayor of Cork, 
entered into the lists with that view. It was not an 
easy task, but it must be admitted that he fully suc- 
ceeded. Of course before he could occupy his official 
post of mayor he must have taken the oath of alle- 
giance. He also must be supposed to have known 
that it was part of the duty he had imposed upon 


himself to enforce peace and good order. In pur-. 


suance of his ideas of these duties, he proceeded to 
abuse his brother magistrates, to declare that the 
law he had undertaken to administer was unconsti- 
tutional, promised publicly to apply for the suspen- 
sion of his brother magistrates—a proposal which, 
it is right to mention, was received with loud cheers 
by his friends in court—got into a rhapsody about 
the patriots who had tried to blow up Clerkenwell 
gaol, and ended in an ecstatic glorification of that 
noble Irishman who had fired at the Duke of 
Edinburgh in Australia. Of course society was 
indignant and disgusted, and as the House of 
Commons was sitting, it was mentioned from several 
quarters in terms of indignation. There existed no 
summary means of getting rid of him by the Exe- 


PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 147 


cutive, and it was necessary that legislative action 
should be taken, which was accordingly done, and 
a bill was brought in by the Attorney-General 
to disqualify the mayor of Cork from holding any 
office, in consequence of the use of scandalous and 
seditious language. 

It was determined that evidence should be 
taken, and upon May 12 the Attorney-General for 
Ireland informed the House that, acting under its 
orders, he had taken care that evidence should be 
forthcoming in support of the preamble of this 
bill, and he had also, acting under the order of the 
‘House, appointed counsel to be heard at the Bar. 
These were the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. 
Serjeant Ballantine, and Mr. Edward Barry. He 
had now to move that counsel be called in. Mr. 
A. Sullivan,' however, before I had the honour 
of appearing for the first time before this tribunal, 
got up and announced that the Mayor of Cork 
intended to resign, and Mr. Maguire read a letter 
from him to that effect. The O’Donoghue spoke 
a few words to a similar effect. With this latter 
gentleman I had the pleasure of some private 
acquaintance, and although he would not desert a 
fellow-countryman, had, 1] am quite sure, no sym- 
pathy with him. The affair was terminated by 
Mr. Gladstone accepting the undertakings of the 


1 Not, I believe, any relation of the mayor. 
L 2 


148 MEETING WITH STUART WORTLEY AND PADDY GREEN. 


gentlemen I have mentioned, and, considering the 
intense indignation felt by this country at the 
outrage committed upon an unoffending member of 
the Royal family, and the scandalous language of 
a magistrate, it reflects great credit upon the House 
of Commons that they should have exhibited such 


moderation of language and dignity of demeanour. Fe 


When I was informed that I should have the 
honour of appearing for the House, I was conduct- 
ing an election petition at Stafford, and, travelling 
all night, was somewhat nervous as to the figure I 
should make. The evidence had been hurriedly 
collected, and scarcely so strict in form as would 
have been required, and perhaps it was fortunate 
that the collapse took place. 

It was, I think, upon the morning of my arrival 
in town I came upon two individuals both of whom 
I had known well. They were a curiously consorted 
pair. I had wandered into St. James’s Park, and 
noticed an invalid chair with a gentleman in it, and, 
walking by its side, a figure which I thought that I 
recognised. JI came up, and, looking round, re- 
cognised my old friend: Paddy Green, and in the 
chair, aged from what he was when last I saw him, 
but as pleasant-looking as ever, the Hon. James 
Stuart Wortley, once leader of the Northern Cir- 
cuit, afterwards Recorder of the City of London, 
and subsequently Her Majesty’s Solicitor-General. 


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He had given way under the strain of the last 
Office, and become partially paralysed. I under- 
stood that these two frequently met in this same 
place, and exchanged gossip about their very dif- 
ferent lives. 

Stuart Wortley was as good a criminal judge 
as ever sat upon the Bench. I never saw him out 
of temper. He was a sound lawyer, and managed 
the court admirably. It was a misfortune both 
for it and himself when he changed his position for 
that of officer of the Crown. He was not rapid 
enough, nor did he possess sufficient energy for the 
work of Nisi Prius. I was in one criminal case 
against him in the Queen’s Bench. He exhibited 
a good deal of nervousness in the conduct of it, 
and I succeeded quite properly in getting a ver- 
dict. He resided in Carlton Terrace, where I have 
occasionally dined with him, and at that time his 
wife welcomed all his friends with the most genial 
kindness, and in the days of his sorrow and sickness 


was the source to him of support, comfort, and hope, 


while exhibiting a womanly example of patience 


and self-denial. Paddy was by nature a gentleman, 
and seeing him by the side of a man of Wortley’s 
position, and his kindly deference and really enter- 
taining conversation, added to the respect I felt 
for him. These two were, although in such dif- 


ferent frames, valued pictures in my life, and it 


150 | EARL OF WICKLOW. 


was with a feeling of deep interest, on this the last 
day, that I rested my eyes upon either of them, 
the one having quitted the ermine, and the other 
the motley ; that they should be passing on their 
way together, joined only by the bond of a common 
kindly nature. 

Not very long after this, I was consulted in 
a case that, promised at one time to become of 
interest and importance. Horace Pitt, a colonel in 
the Blues, and at one time the handsomest man in 
London, had married a lady of a station not equal 
to his own, but possessing great beauty. At the 
time I speak of, she was separated from him, and 
residing with a niece, the daughter of a Mrs. 
Richardson. This young lady had formed an ac- 
quaintance with a Mr. William Howard, son of the 
Hon. and Rev. Francis Howard, brother of the Earl 
of Wicklow, and ultimately she married him. He, 
however, from very early life, entered into every 
description of profligacy, was rarely sober, and 
became nearly imbecile. The Harl of Wicklow 
having died without issue, this William Howard 
inherited the title, but did not live long enough to 
enjoy it. 

I met his widow at Boulogne, where she was 
staying with her aunt, who had then become Lady 
Rivers, her husband having succeeded to that title. 


Mrs. Howard was accompanied by a little boy of | 


FICTITIOUS CLAIM. 151 


pleasing appearance, whom she represented as 
being the son of her late husband, and conse- 
quently the Earl of Wicklow. I think I was stay- 
ing at the same hotel with them; at all events, I 
became acquainted with them, and learned that 
their claim was disputed, and I was ultimately re- 
tained to support it. 

I found that the allegation upon the other side 
was that the child was not her own, but had been 
procured from some other source, and there were 
so many circumstances that struck me as suspicious 
that I insisted upon the lady undergoing a medical 
examination by some physician ofeminence. This 
she refused to do, and as I was acting for her as 
a friend, I declined to go on any further in the case. 
She afterwards retained eminent counsel, who con- 
ducted her cause in the House of Lords, and placed 
it in as favourable a light as it was capable of. 

An adjournment, however, having taken place, 
a discovery was made that did not at all surprise 
me. A nurse and other persons belonging to the 
Liverpool Workhouse identified Mrs. Howard as 
having come there with another lady and procured 
a recently born child from its mother, who was a 
pauper in the workhouse. Mrs. Howard would 
not face this evidence, and refused to be examined. 
Of course there could be but one result—the dis- 
missal of her claim. There were others who, I 


152 LORD RIVERS. 


believe, put her up to making it. I have never 
heard what became of her or of the child, which 
_ had been kindly and carefully brought up. Shortly 
after this event Lady Rivers died. She had been 
a great sufferer for many years, and Lord Rivers 
married again a lady of high position. He was an 
old acquaintance of mine, and I used to meet him 
frequently during the first trial of the Tichborne 
case. He was a very enthusiastic supporter of the 
Claimant, but whether upon any reliable grounds I 
am not aware. I used to meet him two or three 
years ago at Maidenhead, and have had frequent 
conversations with him. Hespoke very unfavour- 
ably of the Claimant, but nevertheless his faith in 
his identity was not in the slightest degree shaken. 

Iam sorry to say that he has recently died, 
and I believe almost his last act was to initiate an 
endeavour to reverse the judgment of the Court 
of Queen’s. Bench upon the case. 


153 


CHAPTER XIV. 
VIVISECTION. 


Iv an early portion of these pages I ventured some 
observations upon the subject of vivisection. I 
described it according to the feelings I entertained, 
and upon the foundation of accounts that I had 
read of the nature of the experiments practised 
upon different animals. I was led into referring 
to the subject not only because it was one. upon 
which I had always felt great horror, but I thought 
it not inappropriate to the mode in which corpses 
were obtained for the dissection table. No one ever 
estimated more highly than I do the eminent services 
of medical men towards their community, their high 
character, or their noble sacrifices and self-denial, 
but I believe that in the pursuit of science there are 
amongst some a recklessness and disregard of con- 
sequences which may lead, as it did in the matter 
of the resurrectionists, to grave evils. I find that 
one of the most eminent surgeons that have ever 
adorned the profession, Sir Wiliam Fergusson, in 
the evidence he gave before the commission ap- 
pointed to inquire into the practice of vivisection, 


54. RICHARD HOLT HUTTON. 


in July 1875, expressed a great dislike to and disap- 
probation of many of the experiments resorted to. 
Although my feelings—it may be called sen- 
timent—extend themselves to all animals that are 
subjected to dissection whilst living, my observa- 
tions were more particularly directed to those that 
had become domesticated. In this view I am up- 
held by Mr. Richard Holt Hutton, a member of 
the commission, and, I believe, by no means one of 
the least eminent. He makes a great distinction 
between domestic and other animals. The former, he 
says, possess a higher sensibility than others; they 
have been brought under the influence of civilisa- 
tion, and these members of our household, he 
thinks, ought to be exempted from all lability to 
such experimentation; and he puts forward another 
reason that must surely reach the heart of anyone 
possessed of common feeling. I will quote his own 
words upon the subject :—‘ A third reason for this 
exception seems to suggest itself from the very 
nature of our relations with these creatures, which 
we have trained up in the habit of obedience to 
man and confidence in him, so that there is some- 
thing in the nature of treachery, as well as insensi- 
bility to their suffering, in allowing them to be the 
subject of severe pain, even in the interests of science.’ 
Since I wrote my earlier observations upon 
this subject, three treatises have been published in 


2 pl ate ee 


s tC 1 ead 


SIR JAMES PAGET. T59 


the ‘Nineteenth Century’ Review, bearing the 
names of great men, in which it is discussed, Sir 
James Paget, Professor Owen, and Doctor Samuel 
Wilks, and their far-famed reputation gives to 
their opinions a commanding weight. Of course 
in a question of experience or science I cannot pre- 
sume to place my opinion upon a par with theirs, 
although I cannot admit that scientific reasoning | 
can overcome conscientious feeling. Still, the 
utterances of such men upon any point are bound 
to be carefully weighed. I have a slight acquaint- 
ance with Sir James Paget, and from that, and the 
high estimation in which he is everywhere held, the 
utmost respect is due to his views, and in some of 
them I thoroughly agree ; there are many cruelties 
inflicted by mankind upon animals without the ex- 
cuse created by the object of vivisection. I hope 
that he is correct in saying that the pain suffered 
during its process is not so severe as those who 
read its description imagine ; and I fully concur in 
his statement that sensibility creases by culture 
and refinement, and this view also accords with 
Mr. Hutton’s; but I am obliged, if not to dispute, 
at all events to quote an authority against the accu- 
racy of two of his illustrations—those in which he 
attributes to Hunter the valuable discoveries in re- 
lation to tying up the arteries, to experiments upon 
living animals, and to the same source to Dr. Simp- 


1O6 SIR WILLIAM FERGUSSON. 


son of Edinburgh the discovery of the use of chlo- 
roform in excluding pain during operations upon 
human beings. Sir William Fergusson, whom I have 
already quoted, does not concur with Sir James 
Paget as to either of these statements; and I will 
quote his words, which I take from the report of 
the commission held in 1875 :—* Some of the most 
striking experiments that have been performed 
upon the lower animals with reference to surgery 
have really been performed already upon the 
human subject, and proved on the human subject, 
and therefore there is scarcely any necessity for 
the repetition of such operations.’ He then illus- 
trates his views by referring to John Hunter, whom 
he describes as one of the greatest physiologists 
and greatest surgeons that ever lived, and who 
devised an operation upon the arteries which was 
one of the most brilliant in surgery, and did so for 
the first time upon the human patient. By this 
operation Sir William was of opinion that every- 
thing necessary was known, and yet he says it is 
notorious that since that time thousands upon 
thousands of animals have been tortured unneces- 
sarily to prove what was already perfectly well 
known. 

Another remarkable statement is made by Sir 
William Fergusson, and surely a very suggestive 


one. ‘I am not aware,’ he says, ‘of any great 


DR. SIMPSON’S EXPERIMENTS. 157 


surgeons having been great experimenters upon 
animals, and [ am not aware of any great operator 
upon the human subject who ever prided himself 
upon being a good operator upon the lower 
animals.’ He also speaks of the experiments in 
chloroform, of which he says: ‘ All the experiments 
upon the lower animals have been performed since 
the experiments have been conclusively applied to 
the human subject.’ 

It will be observed that Sir William quotes, as 
illustrating his own view, the very examples relied 
upon by Sir James Paget. I had the pleasure of 
knowing Sir William in private life, and have heard 
him frequently reprobate the unnecessary practice 
of vivisection; and in reading the article of Sir 
James Paget himself I cannot help thinking it is 
written in a somewhat apologetic strain, and not 
quite as if his feelings went with the opinions he 
has enunciated. 

It is very difficult indeed to obtain, upon such 
a subject as vivisection, a fair discussion; it is 
naturally mainly confined within scientific limits 
and assertions: the great body of the public, who 
are shocked at its practice, become lost in terms 
of art; whilst the allegations of great and useful 
discoveries dependent upon it are made, conscien- 
tiously, no doubt, but without the kind of evidence 
which would alone be satisfactory in the case of 


158 DANGER OF SPECULATIVE OPERATIONS. 


other discoveries; and I have thought it therefore 
desirable to place before those who take an interest 
in the subject the antagonistic opinions of such 
men as Fergusson and Paget. I admit that mine, 
in a scientific point of view, can be of little weight. 

Throughout the proceedings upon the Com- 
mission the use of anesthetics is enforced, and, so 
far as suffermg during an operation is concerned, 
there is no doubt that external evidence of pain 
is destroyed ; but let the imagination follow the 
victim through the hours, days, months, during 
which it is kept alive for the purpose of fresh ex- 
periments. | 

It was stated by most of the witnesses that the 
pupils expressed indignation if any unnecessary 
cruelty was exhibited by the performers; and I 
was very glad to read this, as ! imagined such scenes 
were likely to engender indifference to human suf- 
fering. 

There is another aspect of the practice that 
occurs to me, and I believe that there are eminent 
men of the medical profession who will not alto- 
gether ignore it—it is calculated to lead to specu- 
lative operations upon our fellow-creatures. It may 
probably also arise from my practice in courts 
where evidence is scrutinised, and the conclusions 
arrived at with caution, that I do not assume the 
correctness of those which are not subject to 


‘NINETEENTH CENTURY’ REVIEW. 159 


adverse tests; and I have seen so many scientific 
witnesses enter a witness-box with undoubting 
minds upon a particular theory, who have left it, 
if not themselves convinced of their error, at all 
events having convinced everyone else of it, that 
I cannot blindly follow assertions that are repug- 
nant to my natural feelings. 

I hope that the above observations may not be 
deemed presumptuous; but as the very learned 
contributors to the subject in the ‘ Nineteenth 
Century’ Review threaten a crusade with the 
_view of enlarging the sphere of the vivisectionist 
operations, and removing the restrictions which 
were created in consequence of the report of the 
Commission of 1875, I have ventured to call 
attention to certain differences that exist amongst 
the most eminent of those who advocate the 
practice ; neither can I.admit that the subject can 
be determined purely upon scientific grounds. 

I am also entitled to consider certain reports 
‘that have appeared in the public journals quite 
recently—an investigation that has taken place in 
a public court, and statements that have been 
made, and that remain uncontradicted. 

I am now quoting from the ‘ Times’ of Novem- 
ber 18 in the last year. It appeared that two 
eminent professors, after diligent search into the 
brains of living animals, were unable to agree 


160 TORTURE OF MONKEYS. 


upon a result: upon which another professor, 
equally eminent, having obtained a supply of cats 
and monkeys, endeavoured sto settle the question 
by similar means. I did not follow the history of 
the cats, and cannot tell for how long they served 
the purpose of this inquiry. I learnt a little more 
about the monkeys. They, it appeared, after the 
first Inquiry into their brains with the scalpel, 
were kept for seven weeks, during which time 
several essays were made upon the journey of dis- 
covery. I suppose they were selected as bearing 
some resemblance to the human being. 

Poor things! they had been probably kid- 
napped; but still I can imagine them enjoying a 
period of pleasure, petted by the sailors on board 
the vessel that brought them over, and then gradu- 
ally disposed of by the philosopher’s knife. 

If the following paragraph, which I copy from 
the same paper that I have already quoted, be 
correct, it does not say much for the humanising 
character of the lectures and illustrations :— 

‘A large crowd of medical students assembled 
outside the court, but im consequence of their 
howling and cheering were kept out of it.’ 


161 


CHAPTER XV. 
THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY. 


Amonest marvellous stories developed in legal 
. proceedings, none in my time have exceeded the 
adventures of the claimant to the Tichborne 
baronetcy and estates. The largeness of the pro- 
perty and the position of the family naturally at- 
tracted attention to a claim which sought to dis- 
possess owners of estates the rights to which had 
never before been doubted, still less contested. 
The Claimant was denounced as an impostor by 
many merely because his story was antagonistic to: 
experience, whilst others were prepared to support 
him from the very marvels which surrounded it. 
The recognition by his mother was thought by 
_many to be an irresistible proof of his identity, and 
this obtained additional strength from opinions 
emanating from people of position and character, 
who had known Sir Roger well, and to whom no 
unfair motives could in justice be attributed. At 
the commencement of the proceedings, certainly, 
shrewd lawyers believed in him, and even now 
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162 PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE CASE. 


there are many persons who have no sympathy 
with his career, but who nevertheless are convinced 
of his identity. 

The interest in the case was also enhanced by 
the enormous amount expended in the conduct 
of the defence, and the proceedings before Lord 
Chief Justice Bovill might have been more pro- 
perly described as ‘morning performances’ than 
sober legal inquiries. 

The rush for seats was much noticed and com-’ 
mented upon in different journals, and his lordship’s 
health was supposed to have been impaired, not 
so much by the judicial strain as by the arduous 
and unaccustomed duties of master of the cere- 
monies; whilst in relation to the criminal trial the 
Lord Chief Justice of England had unfortunately 
expressed opinions that led the supporters of the 
Claimant to assert that he was not likely to obtain 
a fair trial at the hands of that learned judge. 

In the course of the second trial an unfortunate 
and reprehensible element was introduced in the 
shape of a writer who, representing the Claimant 
as counsel, made this a centre point from which to 
shower invective upon the heads of all who were 
opposed to his claims. 

It is not my intention in the following pages 
to express any opinion upon the truth or false- 
hood of the present romance. I was at the com- 


EARLY HISTORY OF SIR ROGER. 163 


mencement retained as the Claimant’s counsel, and 
I do not consider that it would be right for me to 
disclose more of the circumstances than are known 
or may be known through the ordinary channels 
of public information. 

A brief sketch of the previous history of Sir 
Roger Tichborne is necessary to enable my readers 
to follow the remarks that I am about to offer. 
He was born in the year 1829, and partially edu- 
cated at Stonyhurst College, a Catholic establish- 
ment of very high character, his family, as is well 
known, being of that faith. He does not appear to 
have remained at the college long, and it may be 
doubted whether he had made great progress in his 
studies—a circumstance that ought not to be lost 
sight of. Upon leaving it he was sent to Paris, 
and there, if the evidence of the witnesses given at 
the trial be true, he must have met certain per- 
sons who professed to describe him as he appeared 
in that city at the period in question. Upon 
leaving Paris he returned to England, and in the 
year 1849 obtained a commission in the Sixth 
Dragoon Guards (the Carabineers), and remained in 
the regiment until some time in the year 1853. His 
character whilst there does not throw much light 
upon the identity of the Claimant. He certainly 
exhibited no signs of a vicious disposition, and was 
retiring rather than the reverse. On the other 

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164 ALLEGED DEATH OF SIR ROGER. 


hand, he was restless and unsettled. His career, 
after he left the army, was not indicated with much 
clearness, but he certainly quitted England, and 
within twelve months after he had left the army he 
was staying at Rio de Janeiro. 

No known object but the spirit of adventure 
had apparently taken him thither, but at this period 
it was undoubtedly his intention to return to his 
native land, as he secured ’a berth on board a 
vessel called the Bella, bound for mens and 
upon which he embarked. 

This is common ground, and the theory of is 
family is that the ship was wrecked, and the pas- 
sengers and crew, including Sir Roger Tichborne, 
were drowned. 

We must now take up the narrative from the 
mouth of the Claimant; and he gives an account 
of the wreck of the Bella, but says that, with 
others of the crew, he escaped in one of the boats, 
and after knocking about the sea for some days 
was picked up by a trading vessel and landed in 
Australia; and:one circumstance must strike the 
reader of this narrative as remarkable, that, if he 
were Sir Roger Tichborne, he did not pursue the 
design that he clearly had when at Rio, and return 
to England at once. I cannot think that he could 
have had any difficulty in obtaining means to do so. 

I will hasten over this part of the story—he 


THE CLAIMANT AT WAGGA WAGGA. 165 


appears to have pursued a life of hardship and ad- 
venture, probably not unattended with crime, and 
certainly with poverty, and to have taken to him- 
self a slightly educated woman for a wife, and in the 
year 1865 to have been living at a village called 
Wagga Wagga, where he was pursuing the calling 
of a butcher. It was in this year that the father of 
Sir Roger Tichborne died, and his mother, who had 
always entertained a belief that her son was alive, 
caused advertisements to be inserted in numerous 
papers, some of which undoubtedly reached the 
remote district in which the Claimant was living. 
Now, the supposition on the part of those who 
opposed his claim is not only that he was not Sir 
Roger, but that he could by no probable means 
up to this time have ever even heard of such 
a person; and it is certainly very remarkable 
that these advertisements should have attracted his 
attention, that he should have declared himself to 
be the lost heir; and, what is more singular still, 
that he should have been able, as was undoubtedly 
the case, to borrow funds to come over to Eng- 
land, from sources possessing apparently not the 
slightest ground for reposing belief in him. But 
soit was. On the other hand, his eagerness to 
leave Wagga Wagga was not followed by corre- 
sponding alacrity in reaching England. He wasted 
time, took a circuitous route, and did not even- 


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166 LADY TICHBORNE. 


tually reach London until Christmas Day, 1866. 
Then his proceedings, if he were really Sir Roger, 
were of a most eccentric description. He undoubt- 
edly went down to Wapping, and made apparently 
anxious inquiries about the family of a butcher 
named Orton, whose son had started some years 
before on a voyage to Melbourne. He showed a 
knowledge both of the Orton family and the locality 
that subsequently became an important feature in 
the different inquiries, and led to very unfavourable 
conclusions. 

He attributed this conduct to a request from a. 
person of that name who had been his associate in 
Austraha. 

The solicitor originally retained for him was a 
gentleman named Holmes, who certainly believed 
in him, but before he took any steps mn the case 
desired that he should be seen by the mother of 
Sir Roger, to which the Claimant readily consented, 
and an interview took place in an hotel in Paris 
where he was staying. It was alleged that he was 
ill, and when Lady Tichborne saw him he was in 
bed. It was said that he practised means to pre- 
vent her having an opportunity of judging of his 
identity ; this, however, was denied, and undoubt- 
edly she acknowledged him as her lost son. 

I may now say a few words of the impression 


he made upon me when first I saw him. He was 


INTERVIEW WITH LADY TICHBORNE. 167 


stout and unwieldy, with marked but not coarse 
features, although his size would at first create 
such an impression, but his hands and feet were 
certainly not what I should have expected to find 
upon a low-bred person. The expression of his 
face was not bad, and, I should have said, was of a 
melancholy cast. His manners were not those ofa 
person who had ever moved in good society. 

What was a noticeable point was that a great 
likeness was discoverable in him to many members 
of the Tichborne family. 

When I was first consulted upon the matter by 
Mr. Holmes I felt that the disturbance of a family 
in an estate that they had held unchallenged for 
so many years was so grave a matter that I ought 
not to act in it without satisfying myself, as far as 
it was possible for me to do, that there was reason- 
able ground for the claim, and, before moving in it, 
requested an interview with Lady Tichborne, which 
was accorded without hesitation. I had been 
informed that she had always clung to the idea 
that her son was alive, and I had also heard that for 
some family reason her feelings were somewhat 
antagonistic to members of her husband’s family. 
She called upon me at my chambers, and I had an 
interview with her without the presence of any one 
but ourselves, and certainly with no favourable 
bias in my own mind. Lady Tichborne was a very 


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168 RETAINED FOR THE CLAIMANT. 


quiet, ladylike personage, dressed plainly in black. 
She seemed to have endured suffering, and to be 
more aged than her years would warrant. She 
certainly did not exhibit any animosity to her kins- 
folk, but expressed herself most earnestly upon the 
subject of the Claimant. She treated the notion of 
her being mistaken as to his identity as being ab- 
surd, spoke of marks upon his person which she 
had remembered noticing in his infancy—lI did not 
ascertain whether she had actually seen them since 
—and she ended our interview by the following 
words, which I remember well : ‘How can a mother 
be mistaken in her son?’ However the belief may 
be accounted for, I am confident that the lady was 
truthful, and fully alive to the gravity of her 
declaration. ) 

I accepted a retainer with Mr. Hannen on the 
part of the plaintiff, and although neither of us 
was unappreciative of the many improbabilities 
that attended the claim, I believe that both con- 
sidered it was one that the Claimant had a right to 
bring forward, and possessed many circumstances 
to uphold it. 


169 


CHAPTER XVI. 


COMMENCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE 
TICHBORNE CASE. 


PROCEEDINGS were commenced in the Court of 
Chancery ; affidavits were filed; experienced 
counsel, practising in those courts, appeared for 
the respective parties, and the case was begun ; 
and, having briefly sketched the position of the 
Claimant, I propose to show what weapons the 
representatives of Sir Roger Tichborne’s family 
possessed to encounter the attack. 

In the first place they were entitled, and did, 
as a matter of fact, file affidavits, and in them 
might have given—and ought, in my opinion, to 
have done—any information they possessed bear- 
ing upon the facts. Some five or six years after- 
wards they alleged for the first time that the real 
Sir Roger had indelible tattoo marks upon one of 
his arms, of which they were aware when first he 
made his claim, but nothing was then said in the 
affidavits on this subject. 

They had the power of subjecting the Claimant 


170 CROSS-EXAMINATION OF CLAIMANT. 


to cross-examination—peculiarly important in such 
a case if skilfully exercised—and they availed them- 
selves of it. They believed the Claimant to be an 
impostor, and if so, they must have known that he 
was a most daring one, and ready to adopt every 
means to defeat discovery. Still, much may be done 
by an advocate who knows how to deal with human 
nature, and has practised his powers largely and 
with signal success. Such a man was one of the 
counsel they had retained—none abler at that time 
at the Bar—Mr. Hawkins. I believe, from the effect 
afterwards produced by Sir John Coleridge, that, — 
even with the scanty materials supplied, Mr. 
Hawkins would have crushed the case at its very 
outset if it had been false; but instead of using 
this power the advisers of the family availed them- 
selves of the talents of a Chancery barrister of high 
character and reputation, but who probably had 
little previous experience of cross-examination under 
such unusual circumstances ; and they never could 
have supplied him with sufficient knowledge of the 
alleeed marks, or undoubtedly, in my opinion, he 
would have asked the question of the witness whe- 
ther he had any such upon his arm, and the witness 
could not have done otherwise than answer in the 
negative. There were, according to their account 
subsequently, two witnesses (at least) of good posi- 
tion who were ready at that very time to come 


TATTOO MARKS. oe era 


forward and say that they had actually themselves 
tattooed him at the college. : 

The only reason that I have heard given for 
this mode of conducting the case was that the 
Claimant might have created the marks if he had 
been informed of their existence. This is nonsense “ 
such an attempt must have been discovered, and 
would have wrecked the case. If he had been 
asked the question in the way that Hawkins would 
have put it, and attempted to shuffle, he would 
have been simply told to hold out his arm, and the 
non-existence of any such marks would have been 
destructive to the trial. 

Assuming that this fact was really known, and 
that it had been proved, I have no hesitation in 
expressing my belief that neither the solicitor nor 
counsel concerned for the Claimant would have 
consented to go on with the case. I am confident 
that it would have more than shaken the belief of 
his warmest supporters, and, unlike those discre- 
pancies which were abundantly proved at the 
trial, there would have been something palpable 
for common minds to grasp; and I believe this 
monster trial, with the gigantic bill of costs, 
would have perished at its birth in the Court of 
Chancery. 

In one of those holes situated at Westminster, 
and in which during my professional career many 


172 COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL. 


1egal tournaments have taken place, commenced 
the great encounter between Tichborne and Lush- - 
ington, such being the name by which the case was 
designated. Sir William Bovill, the Lord Chief 
Justice of the Common Pleas, presided. I led for 
the plaintiff, and with me were associated Mr. 
Hardinge Giffard, Mr. Jeune, Mr. W. B. Rose, and 
Mr. Pollard. For the defendants, the Solicitor- 
General (Sir John Coleridge), Sir George Hony-. 
man, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Chapman 
Barber, and Mr. Charles Bowen. Mr. H. Matthews, 
M.P., and Mr. Purcell were counsel for the Trustees 
of the Tichborne estate. 

The Court did not present so gay an aspect as 
the Old Bailey upon one of the gala days of that 
establishment ; the bright robes of the aldermen 
were sadly missed, and, whatever may have been 
the wishes of some of the visitors, no chance 
existed of the principal performer ending his days 
in company with the Ordinary and executioner ; 
but brilihant representatives of rank and fashion 
crowded around the throne of justice which Sir 
William filled with no dissatisfied air. He did not 
then anticipate the labours that would be cast upon 
his shoulders. The first act opened with a terrific 
combat between him and certain jurymen, and 
legal weapons of unusual severity were used. A 
colonel in the Queen’s Body Guard appealed to 


CHIEF JUSTICE BOVILL. iyi 


be permitted to attend upon Her Majesty’s sacred 
person, but his lordship, fully capable of repre- 
senting the feelings of this august personage, assured 
him that she greatly preferred the administration 
of the law to any protection that he could afford 
to herself. At last, however, all difficulties were 
conquered, although the sacred twelve were not 
reached, and the trial commenced with only eleven 
victims. 

Of the Lord Chief Justice one would not wish 
to say an unkind word. No one could doubt his 
impartiality, and his thorough good nature ren- 
dered him very popular. He had been a success- . 
ful advocate, and had a fair knowledge of law, but | 
wanted dignity, and scarcely possessed grasp enough 
to deal with such a case. Occasionally he accepted 
advice from a bevy of ladies who clustered around 
him, and who took a great interest in the proceed- 
ings. This certainly was not upon law, but in 
French and geography, in which it was early 
shown that he had not been thoroughly grounded. 
I fear that I must say that, notwithstanding his 
intended fairness, the colour of his mind was evi- 
dently adverse to the plaintiff. Those who are 
not lawyers ought to be made aware that the 
burden of proof lay upon the Claimant, and that 
unless I, on his behalf, succeeded in making a case 
of such inherent probability as to require an answer, 


174 DEPOSITION OF LADY TICHBORNE. 


the defendants would succeed in the action. A 
thoroughly strong judge, if he feels that counsel 
for the plaintiff has not succeeded in doing so, 
will often convey a view to that effect. And if, 
after this case had proceeded through part of the 
Claimant’s cross-examination, a suggestion to this 
effect had been made from the Bench, I think that 
I should have withdrawn ; it was clearly impossible 
for any jury to say that such a case had been made 
out as to exclude doubt. 

The names of the gentlemen who were my 
juniors are sufficient to show that the assistance I 
had was as powerful as any that could be obtained 
at the Bar. 

In launching the evidence, I began with put- 
ting in the deposition of Lady Tichborne, who had 
died before the trial, and I afterwards proceeded 
with witnesses who had known Sir Roger and 
undertook to identify him. Of these I called 
several. I thought before putting the plaintiff in 
the box it was desirable to give an air of proba- 
bility to the story he was about to tell. At last 
the jury desired to have him presented to them, 
which accordingly I did. Great sensation and 
rustling of silks and satins accompanied the 
Claimant as he rolled into the witness-box. I have 
already described his appearance. Mr. Giffard 
took upon himself the laborious task of examining 


THE CLAIMANT. 175 


him in chief, and it is impossible to say that the 
effect produced diminished the unfavourable im- 
pression which, in the court at all events, had been 
produced by his appearance. His evidence lasted 
until the middle of the fourth day from its com- 
mencement, when the Solicitor-General commenced 
his cross-examination, which continued for seve- 
ral days. This learned counsel seemed to lay in a 
fresh stock of ammunition every evening, com- 
mencing a vigorous discharge on each successive 
morning. 

One prominent and most damaging result was 
in exhibiting the Claimant’s utter ignorance of the 
French language, and Sir John’s perfect familiarity 
with this and also with the classics enabled him to 
expose the witness upon these latter subjects in 
lights both startling and ridiculous. I presume 
that his object was not only to win the case, but 
entirely to destroy the Claimant for any future 
attempt, and certainly no cross-examination was 
ever heard in a Court of Justice which exhibited 
more labour and industry, or was more completely 
successful. 

And if the Lord Chief Justice had then inter- 
fered and, without expressing any opinion of the 
actual merits of the case, had asked the counsel for 
the plaintiff whether they could hope for a verdict, 
whatever might be the justice of the plaintiff’s 


176 WITHDRAWAL OF MR. ROSE. 


claim, I think, as I have hinted already, that all 
of us would have admitted that we could not. 

And I feel quite sure that the jury were them- 
selves prepared to endorse such a suggestion. 
However, the case went on, and the Solicitor- 
General addressed the jury at great length and 
with marked ability, and proceeded to call wit- 
nesses, during which a defection occurred in our 
camp, and Mr. Rose, one of the firm of solicitors 
instructing us, embraced an adverse view. The 
subject is a painful one, which I do not wish to 
dwell upon ; it caused the counsel much embarrass- 
ment and difficulty, and the course pursued by him 
was extremely inconvenient in the interest of our 
chient. | 

After the conclusion of his speech, the Solicitor- 
General proceeded to call witnesses, many of whom, 
as was the case with those called on the part of the 
Claimant, were open to no suspicion of falsehood 
or dishonesty, amongst them Lord Bellew, and 
the people from Paris; and I believe that it was 
at this period of the trial that the tattoo evi- 
dence was for the first time started in the case. 
After a time I felt it to be impossible to obtain 
an affirmative conclusion, and that I was not 
justified in keeping up the case any longer, and 
accordingly determined to accept a non-suit upon 
the part of my client. Some intimation must have 


ap 


) oe ae, Se ey eer ca. 


AN UNEXPECTED EVENT. 177 


been given that I intended to do so, as a grand 
finale was prepared, and the performance attracted 
a more than usually fashionable audience. The 
stage was grouped in somewhat a melodramatic 
fashion: the centre figure in his usual place in 


the body of the court, ladies pressing eagerly in 


every direction, and at the back, only dimly visible 
amongst the brilliant dresses, two dark figures, 
apparently greatly out of place, but in reality very 
important performers in the scene about to be 
performed. They were tipstaves, prepared to take 
the unhappy Claimant into custody. 

Whatever may have been the opinion of the 
jury, the course I took prevented them expressing 
any, and therefore it appears to me that the judge 
had no precedent whatever for the course he pur-: 


sued, which was, upon my withdrawal, to order the 


Claimant into custody. I cannot forbear thinking 
that this was most unfortunate. Even where a jury 
have returned a verdict declaratory of their opinion, 
judges have almost invariably refused to exercise 
this power, and I remember Lord Penzance saying 
emphatically that he considered such a course cast 
an unfair prejudice upon an accused person. It 
was in this instance a sacrifice to convenience. It 
was doubtless felt by those who were determined 
to prosecute the Claimant that if he were treated in 
the usual fashion of persons charged with crimes, 
VOL. II. N 


178 COMMITTAL OF CLAIMANT. 


there would be great delay and difficulty. He 
would have had to be brought before a magistrate, 
a primd facie case made out for a committal, and 
he would have been entitled to call witnesses to 
rebut it. Fresh scenes, probably not very decorous 
ones, would have been enacted before an inferior 
tribunal. 

I do not believe that there ever was an instance 
in which any judge exercised this power without the 
opinion of the jury having been expressed, and I 
cannot think that, considering the mass of evidence, 
some of it certainly honest, on the part of the plain- 
tiff, and the jury having expressed no opinion, a 
judge was justified in broadly proclaiming his view 
by a course so arbitrary as the committal. It 
may be said that otherwise a great criminal might 
have escaped. Perhaps he would, and might even 
have become a member of the Legislature. But, 
in my opinion, it would have been far better that 
an offender should obtain immunity than that a 
large body of the public should believe that his 
punishment has been obtained by unusual means, 
as undoubtedly was the case by the proceeding in 
question. 

In the foregoing sketch I have not mentioned 
a personage who took a very remarkable part in 
upholding the Claimant, and one whose conduct 
was not reconcilable with any corrupt motives that 


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BOGLE’S EVIDENCE. 179 


could be suggested upon the trial; this was an old 
servant of the Tichborne family named Bogle. He 
was a negro, and of considerable age. He was 
receiving a pension for his services, which his con- 
duct upon the occasion of the claim caused him 
to lose. He declared his recognition of the 
Claimant, and it is extremely difficult to know how 
he could be mistaken, and at least equally difficult 
to understand why he should have perjured him- 
self. I confess I saw nothing in his manner which 
led me to that belief. He was cross-examined at 
length, and was not at all shaken. 

His hair was perfectly white, and Mr. Hawkins 
could not resist the joke that he reminded him of 
an ebony stick with an ivory knob. The manage- 
ment by this gentleman of the witnesses upon this 
trial, as well as upon the one I am about to nar-— 
rate, satisfies me of the correctness of my opinion, 
that if he had cross-examined the Claimant before 
the commissioner, the case would probably have 
collapsed, and that if he had done so, possessing 
the knowledge of the tattoo marks, it certainly 
would. 


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180 


CHAPTER XVII. 
‘INDICTMENT OF CLAIMANT. 


On the 23rd day of April 1873, the trial of the 
Claimant took place in the Court of Queen’s Bench, 
before Sir Alexander Cockburn and Justices 
Mellor and Lush, and no one could doubt that it 
would be conducted with perfect fairness and im- 
partiality, notwithstanding that the Lord Chief 
Justice had previously made no secret of his views, 
which were unfavourable to the accused. 

Mr. Hawkins, as I have elsewhere incidentally 
mentioned, conducted the prosecution, in which he 
had the assistance of Serjeant Parry and other coun- 
sel of eminence. The defence was entrusted to a 
gentleman named Dr. Kenealy. He is now no 
more, and it would be well for his reputation if 
he had passed away at an earlier period. He was 
a man of singular learning, and one of the finest 
classical scholars of the day, a fluent speaker, 
and, although eccentric, by no means a con- 
temptible poet. The trial of the Claimant might 
have given him an opportunity of obtaining dis- 


DR. KENEALY. 181 


tinction of an honourable kind, and the tribunal 
as constituted was most favourable to him, as he 
had dedicated a poem, which might by many have 
been considered fulsome, to Sir Alexander, who 
always treated him with marked attention, received 
him as a guest at his house, had been the means 
of obtaining for him a silk gown, and undertaken 
the office of godfather to one of his children ; but 
the notoriety that he attained by a course that he 
adopted would have injuriously affected the in- 
terests of any client. 

Dr. Kenealy published a newspaper called the 
‘Englishman,’ in which he attributed, in violent 
terms, crimes of the deepest dye to men and women 
of position and character. One man, whom he was 
under deep obligation to, he actually charged with 


assassination. There is no doubt that the extra- 


vagance-of his accusations destroyed their effect 
against their intended victims, but they as certainly 


created a feeling of repulsion towards the man 


whose cause he affected to advocate. And I know 
that the horror of being in any way associated with 
him prevented some believers in the Claimant from 
coming forward on his behalf. Independently of 
this defect in his character, he exhibited every fault 
incident to advocacy, he insulted the judges, he 
disgusted the jury, and finally committed the car- 
dinal blunder of undertaking to prove what was 


VOL. TT. x 3 


182 BAD ADVOCACY. 


not really in issue, namely, that his client was in 
truth Sir Roger Tichborne. This was necessary 
for the success of his paper, but destruction to the 
prospects of his client. 

It must be borne in mind that the Claimant 
was now being tried upon a criminal charge, and 
consequently the position of the parties was entirely 
changed from what existed at the civil suit, the onus 
in the former lying upon the plaintiff, as I have 
already pointed out, to prove his case. In the in- 
-dictment, however, it was incumbent upon the prose- 
cution to prove that he was not the person he alleged 
himself to be, and that without reasonable doubt. 
Dr. Kenealy took up the exactly opposite position, 
and dealt with the facts as if he were bound to prove 
the identity. Nothing could be more prejudicial 
than such a course. Any advocate of ordinary 
judgment ought to have known that to secure 
such a result was beyond the bounds, I am almost 
prepared to say, of possibility. If a barrister of 
discretion, judgment, and character had enforced 
upon the attention of the jury those elements that 
existed in the case, and which were certainly very 
remarkable, and appealed to that body to consider 
whether they were not such as defeated the cer- 
tainty of guilt, I believe that, if a favourable ver- 
dict had not been obtained, the jury would have 
been discharged. 


BAD ADVOCACY. 183 


The recognition by the mother, skilfully dealt 
with, could not have failed to produce a great effect. 
It is true that her deposition was not receivable in 
evidence ; but what a topic would have been the 
hardship of its rejection in the hands of a counsel 
capable of using it! It would probably have had 
more effect even than its reception. Then there were 
witnesses, officers, gentlemen and ladies of unim- 
peached character. There was Bogle, an apparently 
disinterested witness, and many earnest believers of 
lower rank, who would again have come forward, 
and a careful selection of these could not fail to 
have had much weight; and if I am right in my 
conclusion that some of the Paris witnesses were 
unreliable—and upon the former trial their evi- 
dence was most contradictory—a great point might 
have been made. 

Salt they had broken down, as I am sure these 
would have done if the counsel had been reversed, 
a most important effect would have been produced 
upon the case of the prosecution, and let me add 
that from much experience that I have had of the 
Lord Chief Justice, although I am sure that he had 
taken a strong view against the defendant, I am 
also confident that, if a doubt had dawned upon his 
mind of the correctness of the conclusion, he would 
have given to it the fullest effect. Instead, how- 
ever, of using the means in his power to conciliate 


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184 DR. KENEALY. 


the Court and the jury, Dr. Kenealy lost no oppor- 
tunity of irritating the feelings of both. A signal 
instance was exhibited in his cross-examination of 
a witness of position, whom I believe to have been 
mistaken, and who ought to have been dealt with 
upon that assumption, instead of which the Doctor 
launched against him the charge of deliberate 
perjury, and cross-examined him upon an incident 
in his early career calculated to give pain, but 
which could have no earthly effect upon the cha- 
racter or credit of his testimony. And this he 
persisted in, notwithstanding the earnest remon- 
strances of the judges and the indignant protests 
of the jury. 

Finally, he took upon his shoulders the unne- 
cessary burden of proving that the defendant was 
really Sir Roger Tichborne, leaving it to be im- 
plied that, if successful, he would displace the 
existing possessor of title and property, instead of 
pointing out that under no imaginable circumstances 
could there be any such result, and appealing to 
the well-known principle of criminal law, that no 
man should be convicted whilst a doubt fairly 
existed of his innocence. [ also have no hesitation 
in saying that, if the jury did not believe the tattoo 
evidence, there would have been a blow struck at 
the superstructure of the prosecution of so serious 
a character when joined to the other facts favour- 


CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN. 185 


able to his case, and to which I have alluded, that 
it would fully have justified a jury in acquitting 
him. 

There was a gentleman originally associated 
with Dr. Kenealy in the defence of the Claimant 
who suflered greatly from the course that his leader 
pursued, which he considered to be outrageous and 
grossly imprudent, and he frequently consulted a 
mutual friend of ours, Mr. Serjeant O’Brien, upon 
what he ought to do, and latterly he declined to 
appear in court, although (acting under his friend’s 
advice, in which I concurred, having been consulted 
by that gentleman) he took no active steps in the 
matter. I consider the Claimant’s interests suffered 
most gravely by the circumstances related by Mr. 
MacMahon, the gentleman in question. 

Although, as I intimated before, the Lord Chief 
Justice entertained a strong opinion against the 
defendant, which had unfortunately become known, 
the latter’s interests did not in any respect suffer 
from it. The fault that the Chief Justice exhibited, 
and which was transparent throughout, was posing 
too much for effect, and rather encouraging than 
checking the length to which the proceedings were 
dragged out, and certainly occupying a very un- 
necessary amount of time in his own summing-up, 
which, however, displayed his accustomed grasp 
and ability. ‘The position of the two other judges 


186 LUSH AND MELLOR. 


was really nominal, but I must say that I think the 
trial would have been far shorter and much more 
consistent with the usual sobriety of criminal trials 
in this country if it had been presided over by 
either of them. The eminent head of the court 
upon this occasion has since passed away. 

Mr. Justice Mellor has prudently secured health, 
and may he long enjoy it. He has carried with him 
into his retirement the respect and affection of 
the Bar. Sir Robert Lush, too, after a life so un- 
deviating in the performance of every duty that 
it might be called monotonous, has at last, covered 
with honour, terminated his earthly career. I tried 
to obtain a glimpse of my dear old friend, but he 
was too unwell to see me when, shortly before his 
death, I endeavoured to do so. 

The leading counsel for the prosecution is now 
upon the Bench. His conduct of it was lengthy 
and elaborate, too much so in my opinion, but 
thoroughly exhaustive. Even if Dr. Kenealy had 
possessed ordinary discretion and good taste, he 
would have been no match in advocacy for his 
competitor, who was assisted by Serjeant Parry, 
himself one of the actors, and by no means an 
unworthy one, who has left the stage. 


(187 


CHAPTER XVIII. 
LORD WESTBURY. 


THERE are very few men with whom, not being 
associated upon terms of intimacy, I entertained a 
greater admiration for than I did for Lord West- 
bury. Talso felt much sympathy with him upon 
the occasion when he was obliged to abandon the 
office of Chancellor, which, judicially, certainly no 
one ever filled with greater credit. I had received 
from him when Attorney-General many acts of 
kindness. He had appointed me to argue a case 
before the judges in the Court of Crown Cases 
Reserved, and also as counsel in the prosecution of 
the British Bank directors, and when the Chancellor 
had given me a patent of precedence. 

He was involved in difficulties in consequence 
of some arrangements made by his son, Mr. Richard 
Bethell, which certainly showed a want of sufficient 
supervision upon his part, but I know that ‘his 
affection and trust in that gentleman were un- 
bounded. The vote of censure in the House of 
Commons implied carelessness only, and the an- 
nouncement by himself in the House of Lords of his 


188 FOOLISH VERDICT OF A CORONER'S JURY. 


resignation of the Lord Chancellorship was listened 
to with sympathy, and his concluding observations 
with such amount of applause as would scarcely 
have been the case if any graver imputation had 
rested upon his conduct. That concluding scene 
of his public career was truly painful to his friends, 
by whom he was much beloved, but on his part 
was conducted with the utmost dignity. He had 
married into the family of a gentleman named 
Abraham, an architect of considerable eminence, 
and it so happened that this was the means by 
which I became personally acquainted with him. 
One of his brothers-in-law was at the same school 
with me—at Mr. Wigan’s, at Blackheath. Another 
carried on the profession of architect, and during his 
supervision of the building of the now well-known 
premises of Mr. Smith, in the Strand, in his ca- 
pacity of district surveyor, an accident happened 
by which some lives were lost, and the wisdom of 
a coroner’s jury led to a verdict of manslaughter 
against Mr. Abraham, by whom I was retained. 
Sir Richard Bethell, then Solicitor-General, sent for 
me, and showed great anxiety upon the subject. I 
assured him that there was not the slightest risk ; 
that it was only one of the mischievous pieces of 
folly that not unfrequently distinguished a coroner’s 
court, and would be corrected directly it arrived 
before a competent one. However, he was not 


SHOCKING TRAGEDY. 189 


satisfied with my assurance, and made himself fully 
master of every technicality of the law upon the 
subject. The case was committed to the Central 
Criminal Court, where Mr. Abraham had to appear 
and surrender into the dock, which he did, accom- 
panied to the entrance of it by his brother-in-law. 
Sir Alexander Cockburn, who was the Attorney- 
General at that time, had volunteered to appear 
for him, and was with me and Mr. Bovill, afterwards 
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, for the defence. 
The parade, however, except as exhibiting kindly 
feeling, was perfectly unnecessary. The grand jury, 
of course, threw out the bill, and the judge directed 
the petit jury to acquit upon the inquisition. 

Sir Richard was a member of the Middle 
Temple Bench, and it was supposed that through 
his influence Mr. Abraham was employed as archi- 
tect upon the erection of a new library, and in 
consequence it generally goes by the name of ‘ the 
little Bethel.’ 

In the spring of 1860 a shocking tragedy oc- 
curred at Lewes. A gentleman named Hopley 
and his wife kept a school in this town. He had 
several scholars, and amongst them a boy of the 
name of Reginald Channell Cancellor, whose father 
was one of the Masters of the Court of Common 
Pleas. 

This poor boy was of weak intellect, and Hopley, 


190 MR. HOPLEY. 


whose own mind was, I am willing to think,. dis- 
torted, exercised upon him a system of unceasing 
cruelty. He seemed to imagine that the weak- 
ness, partly natural, and partly the result of terror 
occasioned by his own conduct, was obduracy of 
temper, and the feebler he became in mind and 
body the more cruel were the tortures inflicted 
uponhim. At last, during the night of April 21, 
his system of correction was brought fully to the 
test. Screams that sent terror into the hearts of 
the other pupils were heard during the long hours 
of the night. The poor children lay shuddering 
with fear and horror, whilst the wretched half- 
witted victim of a lunatic’s system of education was 
deliberately mangled to death, and was found on 
the following morning a corpse. 

I knew Hopley’s brother, who was an artist, 
with some genius, but eccentric, living in St. John’s 
Wood, and through him was retained to defend 
Thomas Hopley at the Lewes Assizes, where he was 
indicted and tried for manslaughter before Sir 
Alexander Cockburn. Mr. Cancellor, the father, 
was well known to all of us, which heightened the 
feelings we entertained. The plea of insanity was 
not set up, although for the credit of human nature 
T could wish that it should have been, and believe 
that it could have been supported upon the defini- 
tions of that malady that I have already discussed. 


eee se Pe 


PAINTING BY HOPLEY. 191 


Cockburn was intensely affected, as he always was 
when sympathy was demanded. JHopley, being 
found guilty of manslaughter, was sentenced to four 
years penal servitude, and issued from his gaol a 
circular, of which I will venture to transcribe the 
following portion. He advocated the formation of 
a ‘grand model educational estabushment,’ with 
himself as the model Christian master, and his wife, 
married and educated by him for this express pur- 
pose, ‘to aim at becoming the model Christian 
mistress. The lady, however, did not appear am- 
bitious of the position, or to approve of the system 
of education, for, some years after, she sued for a 
divorce, and obtained a decree for a judicial sepa- 
ration. What has become of him I know not. I 
hope I did my duty to him as his counsel, but I 
did not attempt to justify his system of education. 
His poor brother, whom I sincerely pitied, had 
expended years in painting a picture called, as far 
as my recollection serves me, ‘The Building of a 
Pyramid by anearly Egyptian Queen.’ ‘The slaves, 
with enormous difficulty, are supposed to be bring- 
ing the materials from immense distances, and the 
work represented on the canvas was not feebly 
portrayed by the labour exercised in its delinea- 
tion. The minutize were very exact and carefully 
executed, but there was no great imagination dis- 


played in its construction, and it did not command 


192 COCKBURN 'S SENSE OF JUSTICE. 


success adequate to its great elaboration. It was, 
however, his idol. He parted with it to serve his 
brother, and, poor fellow! he mourned over it, and 
that and the disgrace of the trial hastened the end 
that a feeble constitution and many disappoint- 
ments had long threatened. 

Sir Alexander’s sense of justice, as well as energy 
in pursuing it, was evidenced recently in a matter 
about which he had many years before formed a 
strong opinion. When he was nearly a briefless 
barrister a case was tried upon the Western Cir- 
cuit before Mr. Justice Williams. This was not the 
eminent lawyer and distinguished judge, Vaughan 
Williams, but the ‘Johnny’ whose jokes I have 
recorded. The prisoner was convicted. The de- 
tails would afford no amusement nor add any point 
to the anecdote that I am relating ;.it is sufficient 
to say that he was sentenced to transportation for 
life, and, notwithstanding very earnest endeavours 
on the part of Cockburn and others who considered 
the evidence to be unsatisfactory, underwent a 
great portion of his sentence, and it was only 
recently that, the case being again ventilated, 
the late Lord Chief Justice, in the midst of his 
pressing avocations, renewed with unabated ener- 
gies his endeavours on his behalf, and with suc- 
cess. The innocence of the convict, now bowed 
down by years, has been recognised. He has 


APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES FOR ELECTION TRIALS. 193 


received a free pardon, and a sufficient pension for 
his remaining years. It is not only in this case that 
the public has to recognise an enlightened change 
in the constitution of the Home Office. Iam glad 
to take this opportunity of mentioning a very dear 
and valued friend of mine, and many others of former 
days. I allude to a gentleman named Scherer, a 
shorthand writer, very accomplished in his own 
profession, and possessing other qualities which 
endeared him to many friends at the bar as well 
as elsewhere. He was one of the most earnest 
believers in the innocence of the person I have 
referred to, and energetic in his endeavours on his 
behalf. Poor Scherer’s premature death did not 
enable him to reap the reward of his disinterested 
exertions, as his friend Cockburn had the satisfac- 
tion of doing. | 

Sir Alexander Cockburn never shunned hard 
work, and amongst his efforts will be remembered 


-an elaborate address to the Chancellor protesting 


against the appointment of the judges to try election 
petitions. All his brethren concurred in it. How- 
ever, it may fairly now be said that the evils 
anticipated have not been realised, and that the 
judges retain in their performances of these duties 
the same character for impartiality that follows their 
career in all others imposed upon them. 

The intense labour and research which he brought 

VOL. Il. O 


194 LORD BLACKBURN. 


to bear upon the discussion of the Alabama Claims, 
and his luminous work upon the subject, strikingly 
illustrate the various qualities of his mind, and are 
matter of world-wide interest. 

I have only to add that I think that the late 
Lord Chief Justice would form a worthy object for 
a far more skilled biographer than myself. I 
trust, nevertheless, however far I have been from 
exhausting the subject, that I have not done in- 
justice to aman who undoubtedly is entitled to a 
distinguished place upon the page of English history. 

Iam now about to record, not at any length, 
two cases in which I was engaged, and which were 
presided over by a judge of a very different type 
and character from the one I have just parted with. 
I have already introduced Lord Blackburn, and re- 
counted some of his proceedings during the election 
campaign. He alsois worthy of record by a graver 
and more learned pen than I possess. I have no 
doubt that there are those who can speak of hours 
spent by him in indefatigable pursuit of the deep 
and profound knowledge that, since his promotion 
to the Bench, he has exhibited ; and perhaps there 
are some who may have seen him in gayer scenes. 
His great patron, Lord Campbell, was once met at 
Cremorne Gardens, studying, as he said, human 
nature. Lord Blackburn preferred seeking it in 
Coke upon Littleton, without assistance from the 


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BLACKBURN AS JUDGE. 195 


haunts of revelry. I have never heard of his 
hanging over the chair of any north country 
maiden, whispering soft words into her ear, or ex- 
hibiting the activity of his person in the mazes of 
a waltz or even of a highland reel. He was wont 
to sit in a back row in the Court of Queen’s 
Bench, and greatly are Lord Campbell’s judgments 
indebted to his clear and profound appreciation of 
law. Latterly, before promoted to the Bench, he 
was entrusted as junior with heavy mercantile 
causes, but never with the lead ; and, except amongst 
the solicitors who thus had experience of him, it 
could not be said that he had obtained reputation 
even as alawyer. His appointment by Lord Camp- 
bell was viewed with surprise, and people were 
astonished when they subsequently discovered that 
there were such excellent grounds for it. His 
manner upon the Bench was harsh and ungenial, 
but it was soon found that this was only his surfac¢ 
| deportment. He was especially patient and pains- 
taking. He had the fault that judges who have 
had little experience in the conduct of causes must 
necessarily have—an awkwardness in marshalling 
the facts of a case so as to suit them to the com- 
prehension of a jury. But at the time of his 
translation to his present position he had become a 
most excellent nisi prius judge, and there was no 
one before whom I would sooner have practised. 
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196 FRACAS WITH THE SHERIFF. 


Shortly after his appointment he went the Home 
Circuit, and got into a sort of fracas at Guildford 
with Mr. Evelyn, who was High Sheriff. It appears 
that Mr. Justice Blackburn thought it necessary to 
hear the evidence in the cases he was trying, 
which the noise in court rendered extremely diffi- 
cult. He ordered a portion of the building, which 
at that time was a most inconvenient one, to be 
closed against the public. Mr. Evelyn published a 
placard declaring this proceeding to be contrary 
to law, and ordering it to be opened. : 

For this Mr. Evelyn was fined 500/., Lord Chief 
Justice Cockburn, the senior judge, taking the 
opportunity of domg what he was able to do full 
well—making an extremely impressive address in 
inflicting the fine. 

Mr. Evelyn had been misled: by some foolish 
friends, and it so happened that Mr. Serjeant Shee 
and myself had passed the preceding Saturday to 
Monday at his very pretty place in the neighbour- 
hood, and amongst those who did not know much 
about us we got the credit of being his advisers— 
of course, without foundation. 

I will reserve the particulars of the two cases 
I have referred to until my next chapter. One 
was that of the Baron de Vidil, the other that of a 
German named Karl Frantz. 


197 


CHAPTER XIX. 
CRIMINAL COURTS AND CRIMINAL JUDGES, 


Tue Baron de Vidil was a friend of the Orleans 
dynasty, and whilst that family were staying at 
Twickenham he was in the habit of visiting certain 
members of it. He had a son, a youth, as far as I 
can remember, about nineteen years old, and the 
story I am about briefly to relate is a very strange 
one. The father and son were riding together in 
a secluded lane in the neighbourhood of Orleans 
House—it was in the June of 1861—when the young 
man suddenly received a blow upon his head, and, 
turning round, saw his father in the act of repeat- 
ing it, and he did inflict several of a murderous 
character with a heavily-loaded whip, and it was 
at the time alleged that it was his intention to 
commit murder. The lad pressed his horse for- 
ward, threw himself off the saddle, and, covered 
with blood, sought the protection of a man and 
woman who happened to be passing. He first 
seemed disposed to accuse his father vehemently, 
and to disclose the causes of the attack, but after 


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198 TRIAL OF KARL FRANTZ. 


a short time nothing would induce him to give any 
information. 

The Baron escaped to Paris, but was delivered 
up to the English Government, and tried before 
Mr. Justice Blackburn at the Central Criminal 
Court. Sufficient evidence was obtained from the 
man and woman, who had witnessed part of the 
assault, to convict him of unlawful wounding, but, 
as his son remained resolutely silent, no more serious 
verdict could be procured. I -was retained for his 
defence, but learnt no more than the rest of the 
public, and the events leading to the transaction 
remain stilla mystery. Vidil was very well known 
in French society, and the circumstance of my de- 
fending him introduced me to the acquaintance of 
many of its members. 

They could give no clue to the transaction, but 
I fancy for some reason he had previously been in 
ill odour. It was one of the earliest criminal cases 
tried by Mr. Justice Blackburn, and excited much 
interest at the time. 

During the assizes following, a young man 
named Karl Frantz, a German, was tried before the 
same judge for the murder of a woman named 
Haliday, the wife of the parish clerk of Kings- 
wood, in Surrey. This is the case that I have al- 
ready mentioned in which Madame Titiens was 
examined, and if he had been clearly identified by 


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LEGAL PROCEDURE. 199 


her, probably the result would have been different; 
but she exhibited some little hesitation, and the 
facts, which present no interest to the general 
reader, were circumstantial, though to my mind 
conclusive. I prosecuted the prisoner, and the 
present Mr. Justice Denman defended him with 
great ability and success, but I cannot help think- 
ing that the result was an example of how a judge 
of intellect, however powerful, is embarrassed when 
called upon to deal with facts to which he has been 
previously unaccustomed, especially when they 
involve so serious an issue as the life of a fellow- 
creature. Mr. Justice Blackburn impressed those 
who heard him sum up upon this occasion with 
the idea that he was labouring under a sense of 
hesitation and doubt; and juries, always loath to 
inflict the penalty of death, were affected by his 
demeanour. On this occasion this very distin- 
guished man fully exhibited his kindly nature and 
his inexperience. 

I do not think that it is unfitting that I should 
take this opportunity to make a few observations 
upon a subject of vital importance in the adminis- 
tration of the criminal law. The amalgamation of 
the common law and equity systems is now an ac- 
complished fact, although the procedure is still 
very different in the different courts, and judges are 
called upon to deal with causes by means utterly 


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2.00 INEXPERIENCED JUDGES. 


novel to them; but this, doubtless, will all come 
right in time, after a reasonable number of suitors 
have been ruined; but I venture to suggest that 
this change affords the opportunity that has been 
long wanted of initiating a radical alteration both in 
the practice and the procedure of criminal courts. 
I certainly do not make the observations I am about. 
to from any doubt of the eminent ability of mem- 
bers of what was called the equity bar ; but surely 
it can hardly be conceived that they are fitted 
to be taken from the midst of affidavits, with no 
knowledge of oral testimony, or of the habits and 
character of those who occupy the proceedings of 
the Crown Courts, to preside upon some complicated 
question, involving the life, or the slavery for life, 
of a human being. And although I believe that 
the inexperience of the judge is far more likely to 
result in a guilty man escaping than an innocent 
one being convicted, a court of justice is one of 
those large stages upon which an incompetent per- 
former is likely to create feelings weakening its 
efficacy and example, and may possibly be the 
cause of most calamitous results. 

I have in former chapters taken occasion to refer 
to the character of particular classes of witnesses, 
to the temptations that exist in some matters to 
falsify facts, and the occasional deliberate manner 


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NEW TRIALS. 201 


in which this is attempted. And it ought to be re- 
membered that the Crown Courts are the arena 
upon which beginners are launched in the profes- 
sion. Unlike the Civil Courts, the judge may not, 
and generally has not, the assistance of the ablest 
and most experienced advocates to take all human 
care that nothing shall escape notice that requires 
consideration, and therefore much more must ne- 
cessarily be left to his experience and a mind as- 
sumed to be practised. In a civil proceeding, how- 
ever small the stake, he can be corrected if he 
should err, and upon this ground new trials fre- 
quently take place. But no Court of Appeal exists 
to which a fellow-creature condemned to expiate a 
real or supposed crime upon the scaffold has a 
right to resort for the correction of erroneous law 
or a wrong conclusion of fact. 

In the account I have given of a previous 
case I have shown the imperfect means existing in 
the hands of the Home Secretary, and the mis- 
chievous results that occurred from there being no 
others. ! 

I wish that my observations should be of ser- 
vice and produce inquiry, and this object would not 
be attained by any exaggeration. I am confident 
of the earnest desire of those who are called upon 
to fulfil their novel duties to accomplish the object, 


202 CRIMINAL APPEALS. 


but they cannot by intuition jump into the know- 
ledge that is required to do so. 

As I conscientiously believe that the employ- 
ment of untrained men to try grave criminal 
charges is a great and serious evil, I wish to show 
my entire absence of prejudice by quoting the ad- 
mission from all quarters of the bar of the agree- 
able manner in which they have hitherto presided, 
but this is only what would be expected of highly- 
educated, kindly gentlemen. And I am by no 
means sure that a barrister likes a judge the less 
because now and then he lets him get a verdict 
that he has no right to expect. 

I have often thought over the subject of an 
appeal in criminal cases before it was forced so 
prominently forward as it now is by the appoint- 
ment of barristers to the Bench who have no expe- 
rience in this class of work, and I believe no one 
doubts for a moment the principle, but, as I am 
aware, great and serious difficulties surround the 
subject, and it threatens an inquiry into the whole 
system of criminal procedure: and although I have 
neither the pretension nor ability to be a law re- 
former, my experience may enable me to give 
some hints not altogether useless to those who may 
be called upon elsewhere to deal with this subject. 

Let me lay down some axioms which I believe 
are sound. 


CRIMINAL CODE. 203 


Harshness and over-severity affect seriously the 
administration of justice, by rendering juries un- 
willing to convict, and acquittals obtained through 
weakness encourage the criminal classes in the 
pursuit of their career. 

In grave crimes, such as murder, a failure on 
one side or the other through want of experience 
on the part of the judge is always damaging, and 
may produce shocking consequences. 

A commission composed of very learned men 
has been engaged lately in preparing suggestions 
for a code of the criminal law; and, no doubt, if 
such a production could be accomplished, it might 
materially facilitate the administration of justice 
throughout its different channels. Iam doubtful, 
however, notwithstanding the energy and labour 
of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and his associates, 
whether we shall ever see it accomplished. But I 
think that at very little expense of trouble much 
simplicity might be introduced where it is greatly 
wanted, and that in many instances tolerably accu- 
rate definitions might be secured. I think also 
that many offences clearly defined might be accu- 
rately classified, and that each person before his 
trial might with advantage be supplied with a 
statement of his offence in intelligible everyday 
terms. I do not think any real, substantial good 
can be effected without the creation of more judges, 


204 COURT OF APPEAL. 


and it has occurred to me that this might really 
be made the means of saving instead of creating 
expense, and at the same time effecting the much- 
desired object of a Court of Appeal. I think that 
members of the new body should sit throughout the 
year, as the police magistrates do, a quorum of 
them to hear appeals, and the others relieving the 
different gaols. I should give the right of appeal 
in all cases, subject to certain limitations deter- 
mined by the punishment inflicted—at all events, to 
begin with. 

The Court of Appeal ought to have the power 
of both diminishing and increasing the punishments 
inflicted by the judges of first instance. It would 
not be called upon to rehear the cases, but decide 
as is done at present by the tribunals who hear 
motions for new trials in civil suits, members of 
the Criminal Appeal Court beimg embodied with 
the, High Court of Justice, and receiving aid from 
their brother judges. In the above sketch of a 
plan that has long occurred to my mind as being 
a basis to go upon, and in any endeavour to amend 
the present state of things, I should not, of course, 
interfere with the privilege of the Crown to remit 
sentences, but should give it the assistance now so 
fatally wanting of coming to a conclusion upon 
substantial grounds. 

The facilities and cheapness with which the 


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CONVICT PRISONS. 205 


metropolis can now be reached induce me _ to 
think that the ambit of the Central Court might 
be extended with advantage to further distances, 
and that a court upon similar principles might be 
established in the larger towns. There would. be 
no objection to the aldermen still pursuing the 
duties that they now so innocently perform, but 
elective judges ought summarily to be abolished. 

I wish also that our legislators would give their 
attention to the question whether a system of 
transportation could not be established. I am 
confident, as I have said already, that it is the most 
preventive punishment (unless death is excepted) 
that has been inflicted in modern times, and I look 
upon convict prisons and the system pursued in 
them with great misgivings. The inmates appear 
to me to have a sodden appearance, and there is a 
painful similarity in their faces to those whom a 
visitor will see grouped in lunatic asylums. I be- 
lieve that with no small proportion of the criminal 
class the hope of their being reformed is utterly 
contradicted by experience, and yet the idea of 
imprisonment for life is repugnant to our feelings, 
and in many instances would be unjust. How can 
society be benefited by the convict of some four or 
five years being handed back to his old associates ? 
Even if he have the desire to reform, he has over- 
whelming temptation to follow his old courses. 


206 RELEASED CONVICTS. 


Society, too, gives him no aid in an honest en- 
deavour. Where is the householder who will, 
knowingly, take the released felon into his estab- 
lishment? And therefore, if he succeed in obtain- 
ing any employment, he must do so by conceal- 
ment, really amounting to a fraud upon the 
employer—a bad beginning for an honest service. 
And there are the eyes of two sections of man- 
kind constantly upon him—his former accomplices, 
and his more recent but not less dangerous ac- 
quaintances, the police. 


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CHAPTER XX. 
THE TRIAL OF THE GAEKWAR OF BARODA. 


WueEn first I determined to present such memories 
as I thought might interest or amuse the public, 
it occurred to me that my professional voyage to 
India would naturally be considered one of the 
most important incidents in my career, and not an 
unfitting one with which to conclude its records. 

The events that had preceded it were of an 
unusual, and, it might be said, an almost romantic 
character. It was alleged that a great crime had 
been committed by a monarch of an important 
territory against the representative of the British 
Government accredited to himself. 

It was considered of so weighty a character 
that the Governor-General determined that it 
should be investigated in a form hitherto unknown, 
and without a precedent, and bringing to bear to 
the inquiry the most solemn and weighty elements 
that it was possible to employ ; and upon the appli- 
cation of the accused potentate, every facility was 
afforded to him of obtaining such assistance as his 


208 MY RETAINER. 


advisers deemed would be desirable for his protec- 
tion and defence; and there being some difficulty 
in securing the services of one very eminent 
member of the Calcutta bar, it was determined to 
retain counsel from England ; and accordingly Mr. 
Hawkins, Mr. Henry Matthews and myself were 
applied to, and I accepted the retainer, it being the 
first that was ever received by a member of this 
bar to appear as advocate upon any trial in India. 
But although I have for some time contem- 
plated giving an account of the circumstances that 
occurred, now that I am sitting down to the task 
I am sensible that it 1s surrounded with many diffi- 
culties. I not only do not feel myself competent to 
deal with the political aspect of the affair, but should 
be extremely unwilling to do so. My position, and 
I strictly maintained it during the trial that took 
place, was to deal solely with the facts, with a view 
of proving that they did not support the allega- 
tions against the accused Prince; but in the 
retrospect I am about to take of them it will be 
impossible to avoid some comment that trenches 
upon the proceedings of the Executive, and I hope 
that I shall not exceed my fair privilege if I en- 
deavour in doing so to ameliorate the present 
condition of my late client. If anything that I 
could write could interfere with the new state of 
things established in the country, I should not feel 


THE OVERLAND ROUTE. 209 


justified in writing them. But years have now 


| passed. A dynasty has been changed, and I have 


neither desire or right to attack a policy estab- 


lished upon the responsibility of the rulers of the 


country. 3 

Once upon a time a voyage to India was an 
event, and a story might have been woven out of 
it. How amusing are many of the characters and 
scenes in Captain Marryat’s novels. Some of 
my readers may remember by the sides of the 
river Thames the great hulls of splendid ships 
mouldering away. These were the old Hast India- 
men. When the trade was thrown open, smaller 
and quicker vessels carried away the traffic, and 
then the whisper went forth of reaching India by 


an overland route, and even when that was accom- 


_ plished something was still left for an imaginative 


traveller to record—the bumping over the desert 
upon the unaccustomed camel, and if wild Arabs 
were not met with they might still be pictured ; but 
now there isa prosaic railway that takes the traveller 
from Alexandria to Suez, where he is met by the 
splendid steamships of the Peninsular and Oriental 
Company, and transported, rarely with any accident, 
to lands not so very long ago undreamed of, except 
by a comparatively few travellers. There has been 
a misadventure in modern times, which made the 
subject of one of Tom Taylor’s most popular and 
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210 CAPTAIN MACKESON. 


amusing plays. An officer on board the ‘ Australia,’ 


the vessel by which I went from Suez to Bombay, 
was one of the crew on board a P. and O. ship that 
was wrecked upon a rock in the Red Sea during its 
return voyage. My informant told me that the inci- 
dents that occurred were related with considerable 
accuracy by the dramatist. The play came out at the 
Haymarket Theatre. Buckstone and Compton were 
amongst the performers, and I thmk pretty Mrs. 
Fitzwilliam. I heard from my informant the name 


of the English officer who was stopped making off — 


with a bottle of bitter beer. He was well known 
in the army as a soldier of distinction and gallantry, 
and his succumbing to the illicit charms of a bottle 
of Allsopp’s ale created universal astonishment 
amongst his comrades. I ought to have mentioned 
that as it was doubtful how long the passengers 
and crew might be kept in their unpleasant posi- 
tion, the provisions were placed under a guard. 
The reference I have made to the marine service 
enables me to mention a dear old friend of mine 
who had commanded one of the former East India- 
men—Captain Mackeson. Whilst the vessel was in 
(I believe) the Chinese seas an insane sailor inflicted 
a severe wound upon his head, which invalided him, 
and he was obliged to retire from the service upon a 
pension. He located himself upon that very pretty 
spot, the Terrace, at Hythe,in Kent, and at his hos- 


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SIR RICHARD GARTH. 211 


pitable house I spent more pleasant hours than I 
can remember at many other places. A son of 
his was at the Chancery bar, and a cousin, whose 
agreeable society reminds me of my old friend, 
is a member of the bench of the Inner Temple. 

When in olden times a barrister embraced the 
opportunity of going as a judge to India, he was 
prepared to be expatriated for ten years at least. 
Now he can spend his long vacation in his native 
country. It was not long after Sir Richard Garth 
had gone to India as Chief Justice that I saw his 
genial countenance while he was getting into a 
hansom at Charing Cross, looking just as jolly as it 
was wont to do when mixing in the circuit convi- 
vialities, of which he may perchance remember one 
occasion at the Salisbury Arms, at Hertford! 

I had not been over well for some time before I 
accepted the retainer to defend His Highness Mulhar 
Rao, the Gaekwar of Baroda; but after obtaining 
some excellent instructions and advice from my old 
friend and medical adviser, Oscar Clayton, which I 
supplemented with a favourite prescription of my 
own, I started on a certain day in January 1875, 
en route for India. I gave myself time to enjoy a 
dinner at Paris, and made my way onwards over 
the Mont Cenis pass to Bologna, where I stayed for 
the night (and a very interesting old town it is), 
and then proceeded to Brindisi. 

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212 VOYAGE TO ALEXANDRIA. 


As the train approached the shores of the 
Adriatic it was by no means pleasant to hear the 
howling of the wind and the dashing of the waves. 
We reached Brindisi before it was light in the 
morning, and the locality was certainly the reverse 
of inviting. The passengers were turned out 
amidst rain and mud, and found very wretched 
accommodation. It was difficult to get informa- 
tion as to when the vessel that was to convey us 
to Alexandria would start, or indeed where it was. 
The light, when it arrived, did not add to our satis- 
faction with the prospect. However, at last I found 
the ship, which was not likely to start for some 
time; but when, was very difficult to find out. 

There was a rough sea and drizzling rain. I 
heard that there had been some unexpected change, 
either in the captain or some of the arrangements, 
which had caused delay; but at last we started, 
and on the evening of the third day arrived off 
Alexandria. The harbour of this port is very 
dangerous, and the pilot would not take us in until 
daylight, and so we remained rolling upon a nasty 
sea until morning, when we reached our destina- 
tion ; and here again we had to wait a considerable 
time, no one seeming to know when the train for 
Suez would start. I saw nothing of interest, and, 
not knowing what time there was to spare, made 
no endeavour to do so. ‘Towards mid-day our 


CAPTAIN MURRAY. 213 


journey began, and we arrived at Suez in the even- 
ing, when we ought to have embarked on board 
the ‘Australia,’ which had sailed from Southampton, 
but had got stuck in the Canal on its way. We 
were not inconvenienced by this, as we ‘were re- 
ceived with great kindness for the night on board a 
very fine vessel belonging to the company—l be- 
lieve the ‘ Pekin ’ —and on the following morning 
the ‘ Australia’ made its appearance. . This vessel 
was at that time, and may be now, one of the finest 
of the company’s fleet, and was commanded by a gen- 
tleman the son, I believe, of a Presbyterian minister. 

His name was Murray. He gave me the im- 
pression of being a first-rate seaman, and was 
certainly possessed of great intelligence and infor- 
mation. I received from him much courtesy, and 
ereatly enjoyed his society. He had very rigid 
and scriptural ideas, accepting literally the con- 
tents of the Old Testament; and had made it a 
labour of love to verify localities which he sup- 
posed to be described in connection with the Red 
Sea. His views as to the point selected by the 
Israelites for crossing were very firmly fixed, and 
his reasons, which I will not pretend to transcribe, 
given with earnest faith. 

There were no adventures upon the voyage. 
The weather was lovely and the passengers pleasant. 
There were two very pretty brides, very much 


214 THE RED SEA. 


enorossed-with their husbands, one married to an 
officer, the son of a medical man whom I knew in 
London, the other to a wealthy planter or mer- 
chant in some remote part of India. 

A cynical old major, who had been the voyage 
backwards and forwards many times, said that the 
fair brides were much more general in the distribu- 
tion of their agreeable qualities upon the return 
passage. There was a colonel going out to con- 
clude his period of service. He was accompanied 
by his wife, who had passed many years in the best 
Indian society. I cannot remember their names. 
I wish I could, if only to identify them with the 
pleasure I enjoyed in their society. There was an 
elderly maiden; but her companion was an ill- 
tempered cur of a dog, whom she insisted, against all 
the rules, in taking to her berth, where it indulged 
in the most dismal howling. One morning signs of 
lamentation and woe, not canine, but female, pro- 
ceeded from where she slept. Her companion had 
disappeared and was never heard of again. And 
there were grins upon a mischievous-looking face, 
the owner of which had complained bitterly of his 
rest having been disturbed by the aforesaid animal. 
Some flying fish we saw, but not many, and I do 
not remember their having been caught. 

For two nights the constellation of the Southern 
Cross was visible. ‘The name has somehow created 


CURIOUS PHENOMENON. sary 


an idea that it is more beautiful than it really is. 
Still it is something to have seen. One night I 
was with the captain upon deck, and witnessed 
what to me certainly was a phenomenon, and I 
think that my companion told me that he had 
never witnessed it before. Although there was a 
shght motion on the vessel, the entire ocean pre- 
sented an appearance that I can only liken to an 
immense bowl of cream with invisible sides. 

There did not appear to the eye the slightest 
movement. The appearance lasted for many hours. 
We had some of the water drawn up, and it ap- 
peared to be of pure sea-green hue. Captain 
Murray could not in any way account for it. I may 
be writing of something that others more conversant 
than myself with voyages may have seen and can 
explain; but I cannot spare recounting one of the 
few incidents of my only passage up the Red Sea. 
We had one visitor—a quail. Where it came from, 
Heaven knows; but the pretty creature met with a 
kindly welcome. I cannot say what became of it, 
but when we arrived at Aden it was offered its 
liberty, which, however, if was wise enough to de- 
cline, in view of a number of kites that were gathered 
around the vessel.. We were persecuted to buy 
ostrich feathers at a higher price than we should 
have got them in Regent Street; and the scene 
that most of us have witnessed from the windows 


216 RECEPTION AT BOMBAY. 


of the ‘Trafalgar Tavern,’ at Greenwich, was not 
badly imitated by a parcel of young blackamoors 
sporting around the vessel. Aden is a wretched 
hole. We landed and were received kindly enough 
by the Emelish Resident, but there was nothing to 
eat, drink, or see. We soon proceeded onwards. 
The weather still continued fine, and, after a quick 
and pleasant voyage, came to an anchor off Apollo 
pier, the harbour of Bombay, where I was met by the 
Gaekwar’s solicitors, Messrs. Jefferson and Payne, 
and after a really regretful parting from many 
of my fellow-passengers, and my friend Captain 
Murray especially, and being interviewed by a very 
kind and complimentary member of the press, was 
taken off to the pretty residence of Mr. Jefferson, 
who received me as his guest during the time I 
remained in Bombay, and from whom and _ his 
family I met with much kindness and hospitality. 

The house occupied by my kind host is in the 
portion of the city inhabited by all the principal 
people of Bombay, and, I imagine, the only portion 
habitable with any comfort. It is a declivity 
sloping down to the harbour, called Malabar Hill. 
The residences are built with great taste, and the 
spot 1s very beautifully planted.. The villas them- 
selves have gardens of greater or less extent, filled 
with beautiful shrubs. 

The city itself, as I then saw it for the first 


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APPEARANCE OF THE CITY. Bir 


time, presented, with this exception, nothing to 
charm the eye. The appearance that it impressed 
upon me was as if it had lately been in the hands of 
some bankrupt. builder. There were no hotels of 
any pretension, or, as far as I could learn, of repu- 
tation. There was a very handsome club, called 
the Bycullah, of which I was made an honorary 
member, excellently conducted; some fine shops, 
most. of the articles coming from England, and 
very expensive. 

A feature which did not present much attrac- 
tion to me was the Parsee cemetery, about a mile 
from the town. This was a very large building, 


‘surrounded by high walls, over which passers-by 


were not able to see. This sect do not bury their 
dead, but lay them naked upon benches which are 
attached to the walls inside. Certain ceremonies 
are performed, and the bodies are left for the con- 
sumption of the birds of prey, of which there are a 
multitude about the city. There is not a great 
variety of food for human beings; and, although 
upon the sea, the varieties of fish are very few, the 
only good one being a flat fish, somewhat larger 
but not unlike our flounder. I forget its name. 
There are also prawns, and I have a grateful recol- 
lection of a dish of them curried, at a dinner given 
me by one of my confreres at the club. 

Popular barristers make considerable incomes, 


218 CHISHOLM ANSTEY. 


but the expenses of living are very large; and it is 
impossible to practise without the possession of 
a carriage, and numerous servants also appear to 
be indispensable. | 

To me the air was detestable ; and, although 
there undoubtedly is a sea breeze, it is relaxing 
and depressing. I cannot imagine a European 
having energy in such a climate for hard work, 
but constitutions vary and some get on very well. 
I dined, upon the two visits, before and after I 
had been to Baroda, with the Chief Justice West- 
ropp and also with Mr. Justice Bayley, meeting 
with very elegant entertainments at both houses. 

Shortly before my arrival a somewhat eccentric 
member of the bar, whom I had known well in 
London, had died—Mr. Chisholm Anstey. He had 
been in Parliament, where he was so indefatigable 
in worrying everybody that the Government made 
him Attorney-General at Hong Kong, and he cele- 
brated the night before that fixed for his departure 
by breaking the heads of a couple of policemen, 
and thus nearly lost his appointment. I was instru- 
mental in settling the matter for him. At Hong 
Kong he continued to.commit such vagaries that he 
was recalled; before being so, there had been two 
unsuccessful attempts to poison him. He then 
settled down, as far as he could settle, as counsel at 
Bombay, where he became very popular with the 


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ANSTEY’S ECCENTRICITY. 219 


natives, whose interests he advocated with great 
zeal, energy, and ability, and was a considerable 
thorn in the sides of the constituted authorities. 

In my chapter upon Evans’s, I ought to have 
mentioned him. He used, after having been heard 
of playing some prank at the Antipodes, to walk 
as calmly into that resort as if he had never left 
the Temple. He was really a genius, but was lucky 
not to have ever been rich enough to invite the 
attention of certain proprietors of lunatic asylums. 


220 


CHAPTER XXII. 
TRIAL OF THE GAEKWAR. 


Arter having been treated during my brief stay at 
Bombay with the greatest kindness by every one— 
but certainly having come to the conclusion that, 
charming as is the society, the city itself does not 
furnish many attractions —I started a day or two 
before February 25 for the scene of my profes- 
sional performance. Until I learnt that I was fated 
to defend the monarch of Baroda, I must confess 
that I had never heard of such a place, and the 


or Guicowar—had never reached 


title of Gaekwar 
my ears. I learnt what I could about it, and 
although by no means anxious to do anything in 
the handbook line, I must, to make my story in- 
telligible, borrow some statistical information upon 
the subject, which I do from a book published, I 
believe, by the authority of the Government of 
India, and which, containing as it does the official 
account of all the proceedings, including the trial of 
his Majesty, I shall use throughout as my autho- 
rity, except when I name any other. Baroda, 
then, as I learnt, was the largest independent State 


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in Western India, and contains a very extensive © 
population. The original meaning of Gaekwar was 
‘cowherd,’ of which the possessors are proud, and 
their dominion is over Guzerat and other provinces, 
of which Baroda is the capital. The history of 
more than a century and a half of this country and 
its rulers contains the ordinary amount of crimes, 
insurrections, treasons, and intrigues which is 
usually to be found amongst Indian nations; but I 
shall leap over them all, and I do not recommend 


my English readers, if they have anything else to 


do, to add to their information upon these subjects. 
I must introduce them, however, to the potentate 
who preceded my client upon the throne. 

This was Rhandi Rao, who died suddenly—not 
unfrequently the case in the family, and whoever 
profited by the death being always suspected of | 
causing it, my client accordingly, without the 
slightest shadow of proof, had to accept the com- 
mon suspicion. When, however, Rhandi died, his 
youngest wife was enceinte. Her name was Jum- 
mabee, and if this young lady bore a boy the throne 
would pass to him. She, however, lost the chance 
of being Queen Mother by becoming the mother 
of a girl. My client, Mulhar Rao, thus became 
monarch. 

He was passing his time in prison when called 
to the throne, which does not appear to have been 


272 START FROM BOMBAY. 


uncommon with this pastoral dynasty. Before I 
give an account of the trial, I shall give a short 
sketch of proceedings that had preceded it, and 
which will be required for the purpose of its 
comprehension, but I think that I have said all 
that is necessary before commencing my journey 
from Bombay. 

Early in the morning the train started from 
the outskirts. The distance we had to travel was 
250 miles in a northern direction. The railway 
seemed well constructed, the carriages comfort- 
able, and the pace tolerably good, although not 
rapid. I need not mention the different towns 
at which we stopped; but it was known that I 
was in the train, and I cannot doubt that the 
Gaekwar was popular amongst the native popula- 
tion from the reception that I met with, which 
then, at all events, could only be attributable to 
that cause. As we approached his territory, lunch, 
called by some name that gave it importance, was 
prepared ; and I had roses showered upon me and 
addresses presented to me by men whom I was 
given to understand were of high class and posi- 
tion. I am by no means insensible to compliments, 
but I felt. a good deal embarrassed by so unusual 
a display ; and I could not help recalling one occa- 
sion, the only one, that I went to the Lord Mayor’s 
feast in my scarlet robes, and was received from 


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HYMN PRESENTED. ips 


Chancery Lane to the Guildhall by the population 
of that extensive thoroughfare with immense de- 
light and applause, under the mistake that I was 
an alderman. Upon the occasion 1 am now re- 
lating, a hymn had been composed in my honour, 
which was recited. I have since received a trans- 
lation of it,‘ and am afraid that, as upon the civic 
occasion, an imaginary idea possessed my admirers. 
As the train approached its destination the wel- 
come became still more demonstrative, and I was 
not sorry, upon the arrival at the station, to get off 
to the residence that had been prepared for my re- 
ception two or three miles off. This was not palatial. 
It was a bungalow, and situated upon an extensive 
plain where all the Europeans resided. There was 
an English regiment whose barracks were also 
there, and the Government residence, then occupied 
by Sir Lewis Pelly, and under his surveillance the 
unhappy object of all this commotion. Other bun- 
galows were occupied by English officers and their 
wives, some of them young English girls of position 
when in the home country, and who were subjected 
to inconveniences which none of them could have 
anticipated, but which they bore with no outward 
signs of discontent. 

Mrs. Scobell, the wife of the Advocate-General 
of Bombay, and who was counsel for the Crown, 


1 Vide Appendix. 


DOA HEAT.—MONKEYS. 


had come down by the same train that had brought 
me. Iwas much gratified in being introduced to 
her, and by my subsequent very pleasant acquaint- 
ance. Her husband had been on the same circuit 
as myself, and it is not necessary to say, both in 
his reception and in our subsequent encounter in 
court, was most thoroughly courteous and obliging. 
When we arrived there was some appearance of 
grass upon the plain, but after a week it had 
disappeared, and the sun took uncontrolled posses- 
sion of the place. It was only in the very early 
morning and the late evening that it was possible 
to be exposed without covering. 

There was a garden with shrubs and flowers, 
in which in these early mornings might be enjoyed 
a pleasant stroll, but the neighbourhood furnished 
but few attractions, and beyond what was called the 
compound there were no roads. Iwas very kindly 
supplied with an open trap and a pair of Arab 
ponies, not very amenable to discipline, with which 
I used to drive about the outskirts and into the 
town, which I will presently describe. I think the 
sight that struck me as most strange was a solemn- 
looking conclave of monkeys, seated under a large 
tree, whilst others were reposing upon the branches, 
and some ten or a dozen natives at a short distance 
apparently worshipping them. I was told that a 
person’s life would not be safe if he injured one of 


these animals. 


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PARROTS.—COBRAS. 225. 


Flocks of green parrots filled the air close up to 
the residences, unhurt and unfearing, and even the 
kites, of which there were many swooping over the 
plains, were as tame as barn-door fowls. It is a 
ereat comfort for the lower class of animals that 
the natives suppose that their bodies are occupied 
by the souls that have departed from the bodies 
of human beings, and the most insignificant and 
objectionable animals are alike protected by this 
supposition. On some nights a continuous and 


almost unearthly howl is heard at a distance. It 


comes either from wolves or hyznas,I forget which 
I was told. A rustling is occasionally heard in a 
hedge, and you are informed that you have been 
a few inches distant from the deadly cobra; and it 
is not desirable to walk after dark far from your 
bungalow, unless accompanied by servants bearing 
lights. Mrs. Scobell told me that one of these 
reptiles was coiled up one evening upon her dress- 
ing-table. The Hindoo servant appointed to attend 
upon my wants particularly cautioned me to 
look into my bath before I used it, as ‘De snake 
was very fond of de cool place,’ and I need not 
say that I did not neglect the information. 

Having given, I fear, but an imperfect sketch 
of the appearance of the country, a country full 
of novelty to one visiting it for the first time, 
I will endeavour to give an idea of its capital, and 

VOL. IL gn 


226 APPEARANCE OF BARODA. 


this really would be worthy of a far abler pen than I 
possess. When for the first time I approached it, my 
thoughts were carried back to Eastern story, and I 
could picture to myself the Caliph Haroun and his 
faithful Vizier seeking for adventures amongst the 
strange forms to be seen traversing the narrow 
streets. It was evident that they were composed 
of many races, and difficult to imagine that they 
belonged to our own time. Of women, except 
of the lowest class, none were to be seen, and 
these were wrapped up as if they were treasures 
of untold price, although they might not often 
change their garments. The men seemed generally 
of diminutive stature, and engaged in different 
works of labour. Some, however, there were tall 
and handsome, with olive complexions. And these 
were generally carrying heavy articles upon their 
heads, supported by their two arms, a posture 
which displayed their fine sinewy forms to great 
advantage. | 

Heaviness seemed to weigh over the city, and 
although it was densely crowded, there was an 
utter absence of all joyousness. I never saw a 
smile upon a countenance or heard a sound of 
gaiety. ‘The men we met scowled at us, and cer- 
tainly the impression made upon me was that the 
Europeans were most thoroughly hated. There 
were occasional cavalcades of persons of superior 


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CHEETAH. DOR 


rank on horseback, and native soldiers were 
numerous throughout the town; amongst others, a 
regiment dressed in a costume similar to that of 
our Highland regiments, and having a certainly 


picturesque appearance, though it was strange to 


our eyes to witness their swarthy faces and slight, 
lithesome figures clad in such a garb. 

There was no display of merchandise in the 
shops, and the external features of all the buildings, 
whilst quaint and apparently governed by no fixed 
principle of architecture, had the common attribute 
of neglect and dirt. There were palaces that 
offered no exception to this state; and at the 
entrance of the town an old gateway and dis- 
mantled tower, whilst it gave picturesqueness to the 
appearance, added to the gloom. It was around 
another gateway about the centre that I saw the 
Highland regiment grouped, lounging idly, and 
showing little appearance of discipline. I was 
struck by seeing a species of leopard called a 
cheetah led through the street fastened by a chain. 
These are used for hunting deer, but the sport is 
cruel and without excitement, the unfortunate vic- 
tim never really reaching its full speed before its 
enemy is upon its haunches. In the streets there 
are some fine trees, called, if 1 remember correctly, 
pupull trees, but they add to, rather than diminish, 
its sombre character. Amongst the quadrupeds that 

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228 CAMELS.—ELEPHANTS.—TIGERS. 


occupy the streets no small proportion are camels 
and elephants, and upon one occasion when I was 
driving my ponies through the town, I found my- 
self most unpleasantly obstructed by the back of a 
camel, whilst at no great distance from my head 
was the trunk of an elephant; but really, whatever 
may be the case of the population, the quadrupeds 
are extremely well-behaved. I was introduced to 
a den of wild animals, amongst which were several 
large tigers fastened to staples in the walls, and not 
leaving very much space for visitors to walk. I con- 
fess that I eyed the chains with considerable interest, 
to use no more forcible expression. The keepers 
seemed upon perfectly good terms with them, but 
I was more astonished at finding one of these 
animals in a yard open to the street, fastened in the 
same way in a corner of it. Those who expected 
rich stuffs or jewellery to be displayed, or gorgeous 
and tempting shops of any kind, would have been 
sadly disappointed ; there was nothing of the kind ; 
dirt everywhere was what struck the visitor most. I 
had the honour of being introduced to her Majesty, 
one of the wives of the Gaekwar, through a thick 
trellis work. She was most gracious, but [have no 
distinct recollection of her conversation. The 
palace where this distinction was conferred upon 
me was as grimy as all the other places to which 
‘I had been introduced. 


PRESENTS OF FRUIT. 229 


There may be some Eastern word meaning 
comfort, certainly there was no Eastern habit that 
I saw representing it. T cannot flatter myself that 
I have conveyed any very accurate idea of this 
scene of a city that has been the arena of many a 
memorable: performance during many centuries. 
It is, however, the best that I am able to pen. 
There was really nothing to excite admiration, 
either in the buildings or the demeanour of the 
people. All life, in which amusements or pleasure 
could form a part, seemed to be smothered. Never- 
theless, the passage through it left upon my mind 
the impression of something stranger than had ever 
before been presented to my senses. 

I was not at all sorry to get back to my bunga- 
low. Mrs. Branson, the wife of one of my brother 
counsel, acted the good Samaritan, and by her 
knowledge, activity, and good-nature not only 
afforded us pleasant society, but managed the 
establishment so as to make our lot extremely 
comfortable. 

Every morning a present was brought to us 
from her Majesty, consisting of fish and fruit, ac- 
companied by many polite messages, and these 
viands were, no doubt, the best that could be pro- 
cured, but were not at all remarkable. 

Amongst the personages who took no actual 
part in the trial, but who added greatly to the 


Pau SIR LEWIS PELLY. 


comfort and amusement that I derived from my 
visit to Baroda was Sir Lewis Pelly, whose dis- 


tinguished and long service in the Government of © 


India is too well known to make any description of 
its details necessary. The tact with which he 


effected the capture of the Gaekwar, and his good ~ 


taste and courtesy, as far as it was possible to extend 
it towards his captive, was admired by everyone ; 
and during the painful ordeal that the unfortunate 
monarch had to undergo, when practically under 
the surveillance of Sir Lewis and living with him 
at the Residence, nothing could exceed his captor’s 
kindly behaviour, and I know that the Gaekwar fully 


appreciated it. To the counsel engaged Sir Lewis 


Pelly extended much hospitality, and we had very 
agreeable gatherings at his table during the pro- 
eress of the trial. 

What he thought or what he knew were not 
for public ears. Whether the view he took of His 
Tighness was favourable or the reverse no one from 
his manner could tell; but I entertain a very strong 
opinion that if early in the transactions he had 
been entrusted with the management of the affairs 
of Baroda, I should never have had the honour of 
defending an Eastern potentate upon the charge of 
attempting to poison a British representative. 

It is very ungrateful of me not to remember 
the names of the officers, or the designation of the 


TAME PARTRIDGE. 231 


English regiment, whose rooms were opened to us, 
and from whom we received such frequent and 
kindiy welcomes. It was, however, a regiment to 
which my brother was attached during his lifetime, 
and I heard a great deal about him. He seemed 
- to have been a particular favourite. 

It did not appear to me that there existed any 
intercourse between our countrymen and the in- 
habitants. The Residence and the barracks rendered 
our stay more than endurable, and I for one have 
a most grateful recollection of the courtesies 
received at both. 

One trifling incident afforded me amusement 
during my early morning walks. This was the 
docility of a partridge, which followed a man about 
the fields like a dog. Iwas told that this is not 
an uncommon mode of training these birds. I 
used to look forward to witnessing its performance, 
and its possessor seemed gratified at a very mode- 


rate present. 


232 


CHAPTER XXII. 
THE MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS. 


Ir is.superfluous to mention that shortly after 
daybreak on the morning of February 25, 1875, 
Baroda was in a blaze of sunshine, for such was 
the case every day during my sojourn. No rain, 
no dew. The grass, a few blades of which did 
meet my eyes two days before, was burnt out of 
sight, and the heat threatened a sunstroke to those 
who were exposed to it for a moment. 

Yet on this particular morning everything was 
as much alive as it could be. The monarch of a 
country embracing 4,400 square miles, and con- 
taining a population of 5,000 persons to each mile, 
was about to be put upon his trial for the attempted 
murder of an English officer, holding the post of 
British Resident, and great potentates had con- 
sented to assist in the solemn duty, whilst the 
Chief Justice of India had been deputed to conduct 
the inquiry after European fashion, with the assist- 
ance of a military and civil officer, each most 
distinguished in their relative positions. A guard 
of infantry and a troop of lancers did no more 


ifck oeey ier 


MAHARAJAH SCINDIA. — 233 


honour than is due to Maharajah Scindia, the great 
Mahratta potentate, tried and trusted friend of © 
England. His appearance was such as to command 
respect in any country, and I cannot deny myself the 
pleasure of copying a few words of description taken 
from an admirably conducted paper—the ‘'Times of 
India ’—of -what it presented on this eventful day : 
‘ Burly and princely, an Orvental Harry the Eighth in 
outward semblance. The writer might have added, 
‘before the English monarch had impressed upon 
his features the marks of gross self-indulgence, 
Selfishness, and cruelty.’ For Scindia’s is a coun- 
tenance noble and pleasant to look upon. Sir 
Dunker Rao, a Hindoo possessing great weight with 
his fellow-countrymen, and esteemed a very able 
administrator, was another of the judges, and the 
third native one was the Maharajah of Jeypore, 
highly esteemed by the English Government. 

Sir Richard Couch, Sir Richard John Meade, 
and Mr. Philip Sandys Melvil constituted the English © 
element. 

No one can doubt that Lord Northbrook, in 
the selection of such a tribunal, could have had no 
other object than to elicit the truth. Naturally 
Sir Richard Couch conducted the proceedings, and 
although I cannot agree with the result that he 


arrived at, it is impossible that any inquiry could 


have been managed with more fairness and im- 


934 PICTURE OF THE GAEKWAR. 


partiality. No impediment of any kind was pre- 
sented to the defence, and certainly the earnest 
attention paid by every member of the court 
showed their full appreciation of the importance of 
their position. 

The Honourable Andrew R. Scobell, Advocate- 
General at Bombay, and Mr. Inverarity appeared 
for the prosecution. With me were Mr. Branson, 
Mr. Purcell, Shantaram Narayan, and Wassudeo 
Juggonault. For myself, I cannot forbear saying 
that my reception was most cordial and kind, both 
from the Bench and my brethren at the Bar. 

The accused Maharajah sat upon the bench, 
Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly sitting beside him. I have 
before me, whilst writing these lines, a singularly 
lifelike picture of His Highness, presented to me 
by himself after the trial, with many kind messages, 
and Ido not think his face was unprepossessing. 
His dress was in singularly good taste; his de- 
meanour quiet and dignified. 

In conveying my opinion upon the result and 
the evidence it was founded upon, I am quite 
aware that the habits of life and the customs of the 
country presented very different features from what 
I had been accustomed to deal with; but I find, in 
the judgment of the native members of the Court, 
that my views are in many respects adopted by men 
who may be fairly assumed to know their country- 


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THE GAEKWAR'S EARLY CAREER. 235 


men and their habits thoroughly; and it also is 
observable that my conclusions are drawn from 
incidents, many not controverted, and from the 
conduct and testimony of the accuser himself, 
which does not seem to me to have met the atten- 
tion it deserved from the English members of the 
Commission, and, consequently, not from the 
Government of India who adopted their views. 

At the time that the inquiry took place, 
Mulhar Rao had only been upon the throne for 
five years. During the two first, Colonel Barr, and 
after him Colonel Shortt, had filled the place of 
British Resident, and they seem to have behaved 
with prudence. In March 1873, Colonel Phayre 
was appointed. 

He was fussy, meddlesome, and thoroughly 
injudicious. There were two adverse parties in 
the State, and instead of holding himself aloof from 
both he threw himself violently into that opposed 
to the Gaekwar, and was greedy to listen to every 
accusation and complaint that with equal eagerness 
was gossiped into his ears. His annoyances and 
constant slights to the Gaekwar were such, that a 
despatch was sent by the latter to the Government, 
in temperate and judicious terms, praying for his 
removal; and its date is most material—namely, 
November 2, 1874, seven days only before the 
alleged final attempt at poisoning, but almost if not 


236 COLONEL PHAYRE. 


quite cotemporaneous with the alleged tampering 
with servants. 7 

The tone of his despatch may be judged of by 
the following sentence: ‘J beg it to be understood 
that I do not impute other than conscientious motives 
to Colonel Phayre.’ . 


Colonel Phayre had been asked to resign by ~ 
the Governor of Bombay, which he had declined — 


doing, and towards the end of November was ac- 
tually dismissed by the Governor-General in terms 
the reverse of complimentary—indeed, to the effect 
that he utterly misunderstood his duties;+ and it 


was not denied that the intention to remove him. 


was probably known to the Gaekwar on Novem- 
ber 9, the very day of the alleged attempt to poison ; 
and if not actually known, his own despatch still 
remained unanswered. ‘This state of affairs, which 
appeared to me nearly conclusive against his guilt, 
was scarcely adverted to by the English Commis- 
sioners; and it cannot be denied that it materially 
impairs the value of Colonel Phayre’s evidence, 
whilst showing the absence of motive on the part 
of the Gaekwar. 


Independently of these facts, his mode of giving 


1 The words used by Lord Northbrook to Colonel Phayre when 
dismissing him from his post were: ‘That he had thoroughly mis- 
understood the spirit of the instructions both of the Government of 
India and the Government of Bombay, and that the duty of Resident 
could no longer be entrusted to him with any reasonable prospect of a 
satisfactory result.’ 


_ EVIDENCE OF COLONEL PHAYRE. 237 


evidence was not satisfactory. It was not until 
reprimanded by the President that he admitted 
his conduct in Scinde. He very unwillingly, and 
after long pressure, owned that he knew of the 
despatch sent to the Government complaining of 
him and seeking his.removal. He was obliged to 
admit receiving the suggestion from the Governor 
of Bombay that he should resign, and that this was 
probably known to the Gaekwar ; and that about 
November 13 he received a despatch from the 
Central Government dismissing him in terms of 
censure for his bad management of the affairs of 
. Baroda. 

The English Commissioners do not appear to 
have considered that these circumstances affected 
the reliance to be placed in his testimony, or 
tended to show an utter absence of motive for the 
crime attributed to the Gaekwar. 

The press in England almost universaily de- 
murred to his evidence as unsatisfactory. It is 
necessary that I should now give his own account 
of the important transaction on November 9, pre- 
facing it with his assertion that warning had been 
previously given to him that such an attempt to 
poison him was contemplated. He said that upon 
coming home about half-past seven in the morning 
he found his usual tumbler of sherbet upon his 
wash-hand stand ; that he drank two or three sips, 


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238 TELEGRAM FROM COLONEL PHAYRE. 


from which he derived unpleasant symptoms ; 
that he sat down to write for twenty minutes, and 
feeling worse, and being satisfied that it arose from 
the sherbet, threw the contents out of the window 
that he might not be tempted to drink it, leaving a 
small brown sediment at the bottom. 

The next step taken by the Colonel presents us 
with pregnant evidence of his unfitness for one of 
the most delicate trusts that could be reposed in an 
official in India. In hot haste, and upon the very 
day when the alleged attempt took place, he tele- 
graphed to the seat of Government in these words, 
‘in Hindostani,’ so that there should be no diffi- 
culty in everyone through whose hands it passed 
understanding it :— 

From Colonel Phayre, C.B., Resident, Baroda, to the Private 
Secretary, Gunnesh Khind, Poonah. Bold attempt to poison 
me this day has been providentially frustrated. More by next 
post. 

It next appears that some of the débris amongst 
which the sherbet was thrown was scraped up by 
Colonel Phayre’s order, and this, with the small 
residuum at the bottom of the tumbler, was ana- 
lysed by Dr. Seward and Dr. Grey, who stated 
that they had discovered poison; which fact was 
communicated to the Colonel, who replied to Dr. 
Grey in the following most remarkable letter, dated 
November 15, 1874. 


EXTRAORDINARY LETTER. 239 


After acknowledging the receipt of Dr. Grey’s 
letter, he proceeds :— 


With reference to the statement made in your letter, that 
the powder forwarded to you consisted partly of common white 
arsenic and partly of finely-powdered silicious matter, which, 
under the microscope, appeared to be rather powdered glass or 
quartz, being most likely the «former, I should feel much 
obliged by your kindly informing me whether, in your opinion, 
the silicious matter referred to can possibly be powdered 
diamond. 

Previous to the receipt of your letter under reference, I had 
received secret and confidential communication that the poison 
administered to me did consist—1. Common arsenic: 2. Yinely 
powdered diamond dust ; 3. Copper. 

The importance of verifying this communication is obvious. 


R. PHAYRE, 
Resident. 


When I call the attention of my readers to the 
policy pursued by the police towards some of the 
witnesses, and also to the fact- that the greater 
part of the evidence was founded upon the sup- 
position that diamond dust was purchased by the 
Gaekwar, it will be admitted that the terms of the 
above letter are very extraordinary. 

I naturally desired to know from whom Colonel 
Phayre received the secret and confidential com- 
munication referred to im his letter. He steered 
clear of the question, and I could obtain no satis- 
factory reply without seeking and obtaining the 
assistance of the Commission. It seemed singular 
‘that he should forget the name of a person or 
persons whom he described in such terms, and 


240 BOWH-POONAKA. 


whom he must have been in communication with 
within two or three days of the alleged attempt ; 
but it was only after a considerable time that 
at last the name of a certain Bowh-Poonaka 
was disclosed—notoriously the bitterest enemy of 
the Gaekwar, and the man who had been for 
years fostering charges against him. It is not 
within the compass of this book that I should 
dissect further the evidence given by Colonel 
Phayre; but the remainder would certainly not 
create a favourable impression of his discretion. 
It is not, however, unimportant in my view of 
the case to mention that Bowh-Poonaka had com- 
plete access to Colonel Phayre’s dressing-room, 
and was proved to have been there upon the morn- 


ing in question. 


CHAPTER XXIII. 
CONTINUANCE OF THE TRIAL. 


THOSE of my readers who have been interested in 
the perusal of the foregoing pages will have under- 
stood from them that the scrapings from the spot 
where the bulk of the sherbet was thrown by 
Colonel Phayre, and a small residuum that re- 
mained at the bottom of the tumbler which con- 
tained it, were the subject of the analyses of Drs. 
Seward and Grey. There was, however, another 
parcel submitted to their scientific skill, and in 
which I can quite believe that they found arsenic. 
Raoji was a servant of Colonel Phayre, and one of 
the supposed poisoners. Upon November 9 his 
belt was taken from him and given to another 
servant named Budhar. Why is not explained. 
On December 22 Raoji was arrested, and after 
having been in the hands of the police until the 
24th, after the usual custom, made a confession ; 
and, amongst other things, stated that he was in the 
habit of keeping the poisons entrusted to him in 
his belt. It then occurred to Akbar Ali, an intelli- 
VOL. II. R 


242 DISCOVERY OF ARSENIC. 


gent detective, to examine the belt, and Budhar 


was sent for, and made his appearance. Akbar’s 


sagacious eyes discovered a piece of thread and a 
packet of paper, which had never been seen by 
Budhar during the six weeks he had worn the belt, 


but immediately presented arsenic to the imagina- 


tion of Akbar. He, however, without satisfying 
himself, rushed into the next room, where Mr. 
Souter, a commissioner of police, happened to be, 
and brought him to the piece of thread and the 
paper parcel, and there, sure enough, was found 
the arsenic afterwards tested, and which was said 
to be precisely similar to the other portions re- 
ferred to as having been previously found. 

Strange, however, that Akbar’s remarkable 
prescience should be afterwards verified by Raoji, 
who, up to the discovery, had quite forgotten the 
circumstance that he had left it there. 

This incident is somewhat unfairly, although 
not, I am sure, intentionally so, described in the 
following terms in the report of the English Com- 
missioners: ‘The second packet (the one in ques- 
tion) was found in Raoji’s belt on December 25, 
1874, in the presence of the commissioner of 
police, Mr. Souter.’ 

1 It is, perhaps, fitting that I should mention that this last fact is 


much relied upon by English Commissioners as proving the truth of 
the story ! 


HEMCHUND FUTEYCHUND. 243 


Upon the twelfth day of the inquiry a scene 
was presented, upon a correct reading of which 
depends very much a true appreciation of the 
history of this case. 

A witness called Hemchund Futeychund was 
called, and, upon presenting himself, brought to | 
my imagination what would probably have been 
the appearance of a person who had come out of 
the cells of the Inquisition after the officers of that 
institution had pursued their usual inquiries. He 
appeared to be in a prostrate condition of terror, 
and his miserable story was of a continued perse- 
cution by the police; of the extortion from him of 
false statements, and the manufacture of fraudulent 
documents. And to these charges he resolutely, 
although with the appearance of great nervous- 
ness, adhered, and was not shaken by a very able 
cross-examination. 

It is well to consider the position of this wit 
ness. He was one of the most respectable trades- 
people in Baroda, and a diamond merchant. It 
was attempted, in pursuance of Colonel Phayre’s 
letter, to connect the Gaekwar with the purchase 
of diamonds, and Hemchund alleges that he was 
forced by constant pressure into supplying that 
testimony. We were informed that he was kept 
for three days without a bath, which the poor 


VOL. Il. FR Q 


VAR THE MAHARAJAH OF JEYPORE. 


wretch imagined devoted him to I do not know 
how many years of future torture.’ 

The English Commissioners ignore his evidence 
altogether, whether or not upon the ground that 
he contradicted that given by the police they did 
not state; but I must say that upon this poimt I 
think that the judgment of his own countrymen 
is far more important and likely to be correct. 
None of them discredit it. And the Maharajah 
of Jeypore, admitted to be one of the ablest men 
in India, and a devoted friend of the English 
Government, signally recognises it as truthful. 
Other servants of Colonel Phayre supply confes- 
sions. 

Now it must be remembered that, although 
no imputation was thrown upon Colonel Phayre’s 
integrity, much comment was invited by his con- 
duct, and he was upon his trial as well as 
the Gaekwar. It may be said, therefore, that 
each party would have half the tribunal imbued 
with a prepossession in his favour. My own de- 
liberate and well-considered belief is that Colonel 
Phayre was subjected to no real attempt to 
be poisoned, but I think that certain persons 
were anxious to retain him in the Residency, and 
to defeat the endeavour of the Gaekwar to get 


1 This was not proved, but told to the adviser of the Gaekwar 
after the trial. 


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DISCOVERY OF ARSENIC. ae) 


him turned out, and supposed that the alleged 
attempt would have that effect. 

~The Colonel admitted that he had received 
warnings beforehand, from whom did not appear ; 
and a bitter enemy of the Gaekwar’s supplied the 
Colonel with a description of the materials by which 
the attempt was actually made. It seems to be 
conceded that, somehow or another, these people 
escaped without any investigation. Diamond dust, 


arsenic, and copper are the ingredients indicated. 


The quantity left in the tumbler could not afford a 
satisfactory analysis. And so there is a miraculous 
discovery of a parcel containing arsenic in the belt 
of one of the supposed poisoners, who had forgotten 
its existence until after 1t was found; and some 
respectable witness was wanted to supply a proof 
of diamond dust, and so poor Hemchund was 
produced, and he proved the whole story told to 
be a lie, as did also another person named Pedro, 
in relation to a statement made by another 
accomplice. 

But the theory that I entertain would be dis- 
placed if Damadhur Punt had been a voluntary 
witness. He was private secretary to the Gaek- 
war, and, as far as is known, had no motive 
to procure his deposition. It becomes, therefore, 
necessary to ascertain how this gentleman hap- 
pened to take up the position of his master’s ac- 


246 DAMADHUR PUNT. 


cuser, and his account of this will throw no small 
light upon what probably occurred with the other 
witnesses. 

I copy the following from the report of the 
English Commissioners :— 

Damadhur Punt was arrested the evening of the — 
day upon which the Gaekwar was placed in con- 
fnement (January 14,1875). He was imprisoned 
for two days in the Senapali’s office at the palace, 
and then he was brought to the Residency, where 
he was placed under a guard of European soldiers 
for sixteen days, and afterwards under a police 
cuard. Being, he states, tired of the European 
cuard, and, thinking that he could not otherwise get 
out of confinement, Damadhur Punt made a confes- 
sion to Mr. Richey, Assistant Resident, on January 
29 and 30,1875. It is substantially the same 
as his evidence before the Commission, and was 
made under a promise of pardon. 

I can quite understand that Damadhur Punt 
did not enjoy himself in company with sixteen 
Inelish soldiers, and ike Hemchund, was ready to 
redeem himself from such captivity, especially if 
running the same risks in a future life by 
remaining in it. But what is the value of such 
testimony? And every witness went through this 
same preparation. 

The feeling of the audience during the ex- 


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FEELING OF THE AUDIENCE. 947 


amination of Damadhur Punt was shown very 
clearly by spitting upon the floor and other signs 
of disgust. On the next day it was observed that 
a much larger number of soldiers occupied the 
court. — 

I have now given a summary of this remarkable 
inquiry. I have expressed my own views, and 
have ventured upon a theory that has always 
prevailed in my mind, although at the period I 
considered that my duty was confined to showing 
that the prosecution had failed, which I think that 
I succeeded in doing; and, notwithstanding the 
great respect that I entertain for the three mem- 
bers of the Commission who felt it to be their duty 
to decide adversely, I still entertain the same 
opinion. And I cannot think that the weighty 
reasons given by the Maharajah of Jeypore, and 
substantially agreed in by his colleagues, are met 
by any of the arguments used by the English 
Commissioners. 

Amongst them the Maharajah urges :— 

‘That Damadhur Punt, Raoji, and Musoo, 
whose testimony is supposed to form the basis of 
this grave charge against the Gaekwar, are ac- 
complices, and their evidence is not corroborated 
by a single respectable witness.’ Again, and this 
is most important :— 

‘No documentary evidence, or evidence of a 


248 TERMINATION OF PROCEEDINGS. 


convincing nature was forthcoming from Damadhur 
Punt, notwithstanding his position as private sec- 


retary to the Gaekwar, and the command he had. 


over the records of the Maharajah’s private office.” 

He also refers to Hemchund’s direct contradic- 
tion, which he treats as being trustworthy, and 
also to other important contradictions. 

The proceedings were terminated by a procla- 
mation dated Simla, April 19, 1875, signed C. U. 
Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, 
deposing the Gaekwar on the ground of abuses 
previous to and not connected with the inquiry, 
and in which the following paragraph occurs: 
‘The Commissioners being divided in opinion, Her 
Majesty’s Government have not based their deci- 
sion on the inquiry or the report of the Commis- 
sion, nor have they assumed that the result of the 
inquiry has been to prove the truth of the im- 
putations against His Highness.’ 


Somewhat inconsistently, and, I venture to 


‘ 


think, neither in good taste nor in strict fair- - 


ness, the same gentleman—Mr. Aitchison—pub- 
lished upon the 21st of the same month a sort of 


manifesto embodying the views of the English 


Commissioners, and agreeing emphatically with 
their conclusions. The document does not exhibit 


1 Asa matter of fact there was not a scrap of writing directly 
implicating the Gaekwar. 


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THE ENGLISH PRESS. 249 


any originality, or add at all to the arguments 
adduced by the Commissioners themselves. 

I have copied these extracts from a book m 
which the proceedings are published 2 extenso, and 
apparently by the authority of some one connected 
with the Government, as, in some preliminary 
observations, the writer refers to the delay that 
has occurred in giving the decision, and accounts 
for it as follows: ‘ The delay is generally attri- 
buted to a difference of opinion between the Viceroy 
in Council and the Home Government, the former 
wishing to treat Mulhar Rao as a convicted criminal, 
while the latter, influenced no doubt by the outcry of 
the “Times,” and other London papers, which for 
some inexplicable reason had ranged themselves on 
the side of the defence before even waiting to see 
reports of the case for the prosecution, wished to 
avoid taking a course which would be sure to provoke 
hostile criticism in England.’ 

Now this assertion about the press is certainly 
not founded upon fact. I believe that the first 
adverse criticism resulted from the cross-exam- 
ination of Colonel Phayre. And the evidence in 
the case was followed with the greatest attention, 
and opinion was, as far as I have seen, unani- 
mous that it was most unsatisfactory and unreliable. 
Judging also by the despatches that 1 have seen 
coming directly from Lord Northbrook, and which 


250 PRESENT POSITION OF THE GAEKWAR. 


exhibit an enlarged and statesmanlike mind, I can 
never believe that he would have treated the 
opinions of three illustrious princes with such in- 
dignity. I have, as I have intimated, nothing what- 
ever to do with the reasons of State that influenced 
the Government in deposing the Gaekwar ; but it 
must not be supposed that I think the course was 
pursued upon well-founded information furnished 
to the Viceroy. I cannot but remember the kind- 
ness and courtesy I received at the hands of 
the Gaekwar, his patient and uncomplaining de- 
meanour during the inquiry, and his kindly expres- 
sions of gratitude for my exertions; and I should 
be glad if the above imperfect comments should 
have some effect upon the judgment of those who 
have to deal with him, and call their attention to 
the position in which he is now placed, which, 
to my intense astonishment, I understand to be 
practically in the custody of the Dr. Seward 
who figured upon the investigation as one of the 


bitterest witnesses against him. 


251 


CHAPTER XXIV. 
TERMINATION OF THE TRIAL. 


THE great trialis ended. The regulation number 
of guns has announced the departure of each of 
the respective potentates. The English Commis- 
sioners have closed their note-books. Not a word 
has been spoken, not a hint given as to what the 
decision was likely to be, but the result was no 
surprise. Colonel Phayre versus the Gaekwar of 
Baroda represented in the thoughts of men the mo- 
mentous case that had just concluded. 

Eastern minds certainly never imagined that 
there would be a British verdict against their com- 
patriot. Perhaps amongst our own countrymen a 
similar opinion was entertained in relation to the 
native princes. And the whole of the pomp and 
panoply might have been spared. The Indian 
Government treated the conclusion as a nullity, 
and simply effaced it; but the interest created by 
the proceedings will be long remembered, and the 
members of the Court, by their patience, attention, 
and courtesy, are certainly entitled to the thanks 
of all who were brought under their influence. 


Dae COOLNESS OF THE COURT. 


Some few observations are worthy to be made. 
It was marvellous, considering the intense heat, how 
delightfully cool the court house was kept. And 
I shall never forget the thorough loyalty of my 
juniors and the assistance they afforded me. I 
have mentioned the names of all of them: the 
English members were Mr. Branson and Mr. Pur- 
cell, at the houses of both of which gentlemen at 
Bombay I was most kindly received. The latter 
of these has since died. He imprudently exposed 
himself in the jungle, shooting, and caught a fever. 
The former gentleman still continues to practise at 
Bombay. A member of the bar named Taylor 
represented some collateral interests, and afforded 
me much pleasant information and gossip. 

We passed an agreeable life enough ; an unmis- 
takably good brand of champagne was sent to us 
through the favour of the Bycullah Club, and we 
got fresh fish every day from Bombay. I have 
mentioned that Mrs. Branson kindly presided over 
our household. On the morning following the 
termination of the trial we started on our return 
journey, and I was again received at the house of 
Mr. Jefferson until the sailing of the homeward- 
bound P. and QO. steamer. I cannot say that I 
suffered much from the effect of the climate, but I 
preferred that of Baroda greatly to Bombay, the 
former, although intensely hot, being perfectly dry, 
which is far from being the case at the latter. 


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ADDRESS FROM INHABITANTS. AES 


I received many kind compliments from all 
quarters for my conduct of the case; there is no 
_ doubt that I might have excited native feeling to a 
considerable if not dangerous extent, but it would 
have been an improper advantage to take of my 
position to do so. I felt that I had been retained 
to defend my client upon a specific charge, and I 
shall always think that the prosecution failed to 
substantiate it. 

Before I left Bombay a most gratifying mark of 
kindly feeling and approval was exhibited towards 
me. ‘There was quite three-quarters of a mile to 
be traversed between Mr. Jefferson’s house, where 
I was staying, and the dock from which the steamer 
started, and the whole space was filled with a 
dense mass of people, who had assembled to wish } 
me adieu. 

So thick was it that the carriage could scarcely 
make its way, and it is impossible that I should 
ever forget the kindness and, I may venture to say, 
enthusiasm, with which I was received. An 
address was also delivered to me, accompanied 
with a handsome shawl—this article, I understand, 
being a very signal mark of regard. The address 
was engrossed upon parchment, and signed by 
fifteen hundred natives, including the highest and 
most distinguished inhabitants of Bombay, and was 


in the following terms :— 


DAgy MESSAGE FROM THE GAEKWAR. 


To Wilham Ballantine, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law. ‘ 
Patent of Precedence. 


Sir,—As you are departing from these shores, after having 
with signal ability and independence defended His Highness the 
Gaekwar of Baroda—a prince in whom the people of this 
country are deeply interested—against the accusations preferred 
~ against him by the Government of India, we, the undersigned 
inhabitants of Bombay, take this opportunity of thanking you 
for your exertions on behalf of the said oppressed prince. We 
request you to accept this little present (a shawl), which we 
offer in testimony of our gratitude for your valuable labours in 
his cause, and we bid you a cordial farewell, and wish you 
every happiness. 


Here follow the Signatures. 

Bombay, March 22, 1875. 

My kind friends, Mr. and the Miss Jeffersons, 
accompanied me to the docks, and the carriage had 
considerable difficulty in penetrating the crowd. 
At this time I did not know what decision would 
be arrived at about the unfortunate Gaekwar, and 
had no drawback to the feeling of gratitude for all 
the kindness that had been extended tome. After 
I had arrived on board I received, through Sir 
Lewis Pelly, a very kind message from my client, 
and requesting me to accept a portrait of himself 
as a mark of his consideration. This was trans- 
mitted to me subsequently. It is pamted by an 
Indian artist with considerable skill, and is a 
remarkably good likeness. 

I do not remember the name of the vessel that 
brought me home. Lverything was very pleasant 


- VOYAGE HOME. 255 


on board, and the voyage passed smoothly and with- 
out anyincidents. Amongst the passengers was Lord 
de Grey, the son of the present Viceroy. He had 
been round the world, and was returning, and his’ 
pleasant anecdotes of travel took much away from 
the monotony of the voyage. We both of us 
stopped at Suez, and visited Cairo. Once upon a 
time a writer might fill his pages with accounts of 
mosques and bazaars and the strange habits of the 
natives. Now I should as soon think of describing 
the streets of Margate. An English brougham with 
a not unusual occupant drives up and down the 
promenade. very other house almost, at all 
events in some of the streets, was a gambling 
resort, and I heard some ugly stories about the 
disappearance of Huropeans. Lord de Grey and 
myself visited the Pyramids. I did not, however, 
attempt an ascent. They are the haunts of dirty, 
dingy, disreputable beggars, who carry knives. 

I was not sorry to get away from Cairo, and, 
reaching Alexandria by rail, joimed the same 
ship, and, after another calm passage, duly reached 
Brindisi, which I have already described, and I 
saw nothing to induce me to change my mind. 
I regret that I cannot remember the name of 
the gentleman who at that time held the post of 
Consul, that I might convey directly to him my 
appreciation of the great kindness and attention 


256 DINNER TO THE PRINCE OF WALES. 


that he showed me. A telegraphic message hur- 
ried me home, where, having arrived in due course, 
I need not say I have no adventure to relate of the 
journey. | . 

I have had occasion to mention, in the course 
of the foregoing pages, the name of Sir Lewis 
Pelly. He had conducted the very delicate 
arrangements immediately antecedent to the Com- 
mission, and had the charge of the Gaekwar’s ~ 
person during its continuance. He also filled the 
post of Resident, and from him myself and brother 
counsel met with many proofs of attention and 
kindness. His demeanour to the Prince was 
characterised by all the courtesy and consideration 
that his duty would permit. He vacated the 
position of Resident in favour of Sir Richard Meade, 
who had been one of the Commissioners. Whilst 
I was at Baroda I received a letter from Colonel 
Napier Sturt, who was staying upon a visit with his 
brother-in-law, Lord Northbrook. We met after- 
wards in London, and his Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales did him and me the honour of dining with 
us at the Garrick Club, on which occasion Sir 
Lewis Pelly was also my guest, and thus I had the 
opportunity of returning his kindness in the 
manner that must have been most gratifying to 


himself. 


257 


CHAPTER XXYV. 


GENERAL REVIEW. 


In a mental review of the contents of the different 
chapters contained inthese volumes, I feel how much 
Ihave left unsaid that might have amused, and 
possibly have been of some service to my readers. 
T also feel that in my own profession changes have 
taken place, and are doing so daily, which are de- 
serving of more reflection than I have hitherto 
given to them. | 

The public scarcely appreciate how much they 
may be affected by these changes, although recent 
incidents have occurred affording unfortunate illus- 
trations. 

No one can doubt that the general administra- 
tion of the law has during the last half-century 
improved in every branch, and the present genera- 
tion would scarcely credit the amount of villainy, 
fraud, and oppression which previous to that period 
flourished under its auspices. The gaols filled with 
victims, officers of the sheriffs robbing both creditors 
and debtors; small courts, the offices of which 
were put up for sale, and the costs incurred by the 

VOL. II. S 


258 MARSHALSEA PRISON. 


suitors brought ruin to both parties. One flagrant 
example was the Marshalsea, and a gentleman 
whom I slightly knew, named Higgins, but who. 
wrote under the nom de plume of ‘Jacob Om- 
nium, conferred a benefit upon society by his 
eloquent denunciation of its iniquities, leading to. 
the ultimate abolition of the Court. Immense 
taxes were imposed upon legal proceedings by nu- 
merous sinecure offices paid out of suitors’ pockets. 
The profession also was comparatively limited. In 
1816, the year in which my father was called to the 
bar, there were only twenty-eight King’s Counsel. 
Lord Eldon was Chancellor, Ellenborough Chief- 
Justice, and Serjeants’ Inn boasted several most 
distinguished members. I cannot think among the 
numerous improvements effected that the destruc- 
tion of this last body can be numbered, and it 
seems to have been done with thoughtlessness, 
and without such formalities as dealing with so 
ancient an institution deserved. I believe that 
those answerable for the result scarcely knew the 
character of the institution. Formerly it had cer- 
tain exclusive privileges. These, as I have before 
said, were properly abolished, but its peculiar 
quality, that of being essentially a popular institu- 
tion, and not subject to the control of the Crown, 
thus distinguishing its members from King’sCounsel, 


in itself made it worthy of retention. It possessed 


EQUITY. LAWYERS. 259 


another great advantage—that a junior who had 
not seen much civil business, and who had prac- 
tised principally at sessions, could, after seven 
years’ standing, claim the appointment, and thus 
get a step intermediate to that of King’s Counse! 
without sacrificing certain business that the latter 
gentleman was, by etiquette, bound to abandon. 
I have referred for a second time to this rank, be 
cause I think now that, again without full reflection, 
a course is being adopted by which ultimately both 
the public and the profession will grievously suffer 
in the administration of justice, and recent occur- 
rences have forced the matters to which I refer 
prominently forward. I have already said, and 
wish emphatically to repeat, that no higher intel- 
lects can exist than many that have adorned the 
Equity bar. The names of Bethell, Roundell 
Palmer, Cairns, Jessel, and the late Lord Justice 
James represent men worthy of any age; but I 
cannot think that the general body of that branch 
of the profession to which they belong are fitted 
to try causes dependent upon oral testimony, and 
I consider them to be specially unsuited to preside 
in criminal cases. 

Their schooling has been that of drawing con- 
clusions from affidavits, and arguing before refined 
and intellectual minds. The evidence does not come 
into their hands directly, but has been manipulated 

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260 CRIMINAL CASES. 


by the solicitor. They do not see the witnesses, as 
an ordinary rule, and I have already expressed my 
opinion as to their mode of dealing with such ap- 
paritions when they occur. ‘The judge who listens 
to the argument has to be reached by calm and 
unimpassioned means quite unfitted to a popular and 
comparatively uneducated tribunal. Can this be 
an appropriate preparation for a man to be placed 
upon a judgment-seat, facing a dock, with the 
very form of which he is unacquainted, and called 
‘upon to deal with a fellow-creature’s life, upon 
materials of which he is, by practice, absolutely 
ignorant ? 

It is not only that the individual so selected 
has no experience of witnesses, but the class of 
business to which his mind has been applied is 
totally different from what presents itself in the 
criminal courts. No doubt, he has met with 
plenty of falsehood and fraud, but they have been 
arrayed in a decent and respectable garb, and 
bore no more resemblance to the crime and its 
concomitants prevailing in the criminal courts than 
they did outwardly to the fustian jacket of the 
labourer, or even the gaudy apparel of the village 
beadle. My readers have frequently noticed the 
following scene in court. A learned judge has 
taken his place upon the bench, a criminal charged 
with murder is arraigned before him. He has no 


MURDER CASES. 261 


counsel. And his lordship, addressing a gentle- 


man who probably has no client, says, ‘ Mr. . 


will you kindly watch the case for the prisoner ?’ 

Let my readers picture to themselves the life 
of a fellow-creature, possibly assailed by perjury, 
dependent upon the practical knowledge of an 
Kquity judge, assisted by a junior counsel. 

I was myself present when this actually 
occurred. A Chancery barrister of most remark- 
able attainments, and possessing every high quality 
except the experience necessary for his position, 
having been created a judge, was called upon, 
amongst his first cases, to try two most serious 
charges of murder, in the first of which the 
incident I have referred to actually occurred. 
At his request a junior counsel was asked to de- 
fend, and did so with great ability and judgment, 
and there was no failure of justice in the result. 
In the second case, there occurred a scene which 
certainly would not have happened if the judge had 
come from the other branch of his profession, and 
I am not sure that the verdict arrived at was 
correct; certainly it was subsequently modified. 
I am not sorry to refer to these instances, because, 
except the evils that must arise from the grounds I 
have referred to, it would be impossible to attach 
censure to the judicial qualities of the learned 
judge. The public have had their attention called 


262 FAILURE OF JUSTICE. 


‘to two recent cases connected with the administra- 
tion of the criminal law. Both of them happen to 


have been tried by the same judge, whose intellect — 


is of the highest order, and before whom it has 
frequently been my pleasure to practise. . He was 
selected from the highest ranks of the Chancery 
bar. In the first of these cases a prisoner was left 
for execution. The colleague of the judge for- 
tunately entertained doubt, and inquiries were 
readily instituted, and the result was the discovery 
of the man’s innocence. In another case, two 
men had undergone a long term of imprisonment, 
part, only, of a much longer sentence, well de- 
served if they had been guilty. They have been 
shown to be perfectly mnocent, pardoned, and re- 
compensed. Iwas not present at either of these 
trials, but some who were have told me that the 
judge took a perfectly just view in both cases; 
but he had to address country juries of the com- 
moner class, and in both instances they were 
governed rather by details that shocked their 
feelings than by the evidence that ought to have 
controlled their judgment. 

In the observations that I have made respect- 
ing the appointment of purely Equity lawyers as 
Criminal judges, it must not be supposed that I 
ignore the liability of human nature, in every 
grade and with whatever schooling, to error, and it 


A COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL. 263 


is on this account that I have so urgently pressed 
the necessity of a Court of Criminal Appeal. 
Applicable of course only to convictions, it is 
essential that little delay should take place be- 
tween the trial and the appeal, and I have already 
ventured to shadow forth the kind of tribunal 
that I think should be created. I have also ex- 
pressed an opinion that the absence of such a 
court is prejudicial to the interests of justice 
oftener by the escape of criminals than by wrong- 
ful convictions. There are certain words that are 
constantly used, and, whether actually used or 
not, their impression exists in the minds of a jury 
trying a capital case: ‘ Remember, your verdict is 
fal.’ How many criminals have escaped through 
the influence of these words! I have recorded two 
instances in the course of these pages. I trust 
that there have not been many cases where their 
efficacy has not prevailed, where it ought to have 
done. But who on this earth can tell ? 

One other ground for the institution of a Court 
of Appeal is that it will abolish a most dis- 
creditable anomaly. Cases may, by a well-known 
process, be removed into the Court of Queen’s 
Bench, and there, although supposed to be tried by 
the highest officer of the law, and with the assist- 
ance of a special jury, a verdict of guilty is not 
necessarily final, it may be appealed against. As 


264 SCENE ON THE OXFORD CIRCUIT. 


the process of removal is expensive, it may not 
unfairly be alleged that in some cases there exists 
one law for the poor, another for the wealthy. 
The verdict against the defendant unremoved 
would be final. | 

Another evil, and in my opinion a very grave 
one, arises from the creation of judges out of a 
different sphere from those who ordinarily practise 
in the courts over which they are placed. In an 
early chapter I called attention to the remark of 
Monsieur Berryer as to the courteous manner, 
kindly feelings, and perfect confidence existing 
between the bench and the bar. This mainly 
arises from the intimacy existing between them 
during an early professional career. If a learned 
judge upon a recent occasion had been so selected, 
it is not likely that such a scene as that exhibited 
lately upon the Oxford Circuit could ever have 
taken place. — 

As I have taken my readers back to my old 
Inn, I will venture to surround it with all the halo 
to which it is entitled. We were and had been 
from time immemorial connected with the Corpo- 
ration of the City of London, and, inasmuch as 
the greatest compliment appreciated by that august 
body was annually paid to us, we were doubtless 
once upon a time of no small importance ourselves. 
We received an invitation to dine at the Lord 


SIR THOMAS CHAMBERS. 265 


Mayor’s dinner on November 9, and arrayed in 
robes that gave us as much claim to notice as the 
men in armour, and preceded by a personage 
known as the City Marshal, we were assigned seats 
amongst the principal guests at that great festival, 
and it was really a sight worthy of notice. 

The grandeur of the hall, the magnificence of 
the dresses, the style of the entertainment, and the 
rank of the guests, rendered it one of the greatest 
scenes exhibited throughout Europe. Upon this 
ereat occasion it was the office of one of the high 
officers of the Corporation, no less a dignitary 
than the Common Serjeant, personally to convey 
to us the invitation on the first day of Michaelmas 
Term at our Inn. 

Sir Thomas Chambers, when he occupied this 
office, was accustomed to commit a most amusing 
blunder. Whether moved by some idea of his 
own dignity, or acting under civic instruction, [ 
am unable to say, but when he came to perform 
his task, he addressed himself solely to the Judges, 
not even naming the Serjeants, although the former 
were asked only in that capacity, and were in- 
eluded with the Lord Chancellor and Equity Judges 
specially in their official capacity, and invited by 
the Lord Mayor himself personally. The Common 
Serjeant was not probably aware that whilst it in no. 
respect derogated from his dignity to convey a 


2.66 MR. SERJEANT WOOLRYCH. 


message from one great corporation to another, 
he was performing the duty of a butler in ‘con- 
veying an invitation to dinner to mdividuals be- 
longing to it. | 

There was a worthy member of our body, Mr. 
Serjeant Woolrych, who had written a most ex- 
haustive book upon Sewers, and was very learned 
about city customs, and who exercised his mind 


greatly upon the blunder into which the Common _ 


Serjeant had tumbled, and wanted me, as Treasurer, 
to call attention to it. He considered that this 
was not only due to common humanity but also to 
our dignity. I was, however, deaf to his entreaties. 

I do not remember dining more than upon one 
occasion in my official capacity. On this occasion 
the scarlet robes and heavy cumbrous wig, neces- 
sary to be worn, destroyed all possibility of enjoy- 
ment. The Serjeants of the Inn were also invited 
cone Sunday in May or June, I forget which, to 
attend the service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. This 
was a very interesting ceremony ; and, although 
the names of the clergymen whom I heard preach 
have escaped my memory, | remember that the 
sermons were highly interesting and intellectual ; 
but the beauty of the spiritual fare was as greatly 
destroyed by our costume upon these occasions, as 
‘our enjoyment was of the luxuries so liberally pro- 
vided upon the occasion of the Lord Mayors’ feasts. 


i ae ce ee ae 


STONYHURST. 267 


An incident occurred to me which, from my 
connection with the Tichborne case, gave me con- 
siderable interest. It arose about eighteen months 
ago, when I was enjoying a very charming visit. 
with Sir John and Lady Holker, at their country 
seat, at Coulthurst, upon the borders of Lancashire 
and Yorkshire, and, learning that Stonyhurst Col- 
lege was situated at no great distance, I took the 
opportunity of driving over to pay it a visit. It 
was the locality pointed at by a great portion 
of the cross-examination by Sir John Coleridge. 
Through its rooms and gardens the unhappy 
Claimant was invited to travel; it was here 
the learning was supposed to have been im- 
parted of which he was challenged to produce 
some proof, and it was over the whole of this 
period that if he were the genuine baronet his un- 
fortunate failure of memory extended. I was most 
kindly received, and made an interesting excursion 
through the establishment and its grounds. Of 
course, | can form no opinion of its scholastic 
successes, but I was struck by the variety of the 
studies and their apparently efficient superinten- 
dence; and there was one characteristic that I was 
fully able to appreciate—the extreme attention and 
care apparent in every portion of the establishment 
to the health and physical comforts of the pupils. 

Upon the first trial, to which I have just 


268 A WITNESS. 


alluded, and amongst the witnesses who were un- 
doubtedly actuated by a firm belief in the identity 
of the Claimant with Sir Roger Tichborne, was a 
Catholic priest who had been one of the tutors 
during the stay of the real baronet at Stonyhurst. 
This gentleman gave his evidence in favour of the 
claim with great firmness and evident honesty of 
intention. He was subjected to a severe cross- 
examination and suffered greatly under it. 

He was one of those men of not an uncommon 
type, whose feelings had been reached without a 
sufficient aid from reason; who did not dissect 
sufficiently from materials before him what he 
really knew from what had been impressed upon 
his mind from other sources. Witnesses of this 
kind cut but an awkward figure in the hands of a 
skilful counsel; the more so that they feel that they 
may have been misled and conveyed erroneous 
ideas. Such a feeling is very trying to a conscien- 
tious man, and it was evident that this gentleman 
suffered greatly. I took the opportunity of en- 
quiring after him, and learnt that his mind had 
given way, and that he was in confinement. The 
very refined and intellectual personage who was 
my cicerone had been formerly a Protestant clergy- 
man and one of the masters of Eton College. 

Tam not precluded by the sincere friendship | 
feel for my kind hosts from availing myself of the 


SIR JOHN HOLKER. 269 


example of Sir John Holker to illustrate some of 
my comments upon appointments to the Bench, 
especially as I shall be confirmed by the entire pro- 
fession. The position that he attained at the Com- 
mon Law bar speaks for itself; his selection to 
conduct important Equity cases shows that he must 
possess sufficient knowledge upon that branch for 
appellant business: but what my attention has 
been, throughout the remarks occurring in these 
pages, particularly directed to, namely, the Criminal 
branch, is peculiarly satisfied by his appointment. 
Sir John possesses a large sessions experience, and 
has dealt with witnesses of every grade and cha- 
racter. | 

I am uttering a very safe prophecy when I pre- 
dict that he will be received with a hearty wel- 
come on every circuit in the kingdom, and afford 
to those who belong to it all the comfort and as- 
sistance consistent with an impartial exercise of 


his duty. 


CHAT T ERX aye 


SOME FURTHER TRIALS. 


In the year 1838 I was present at a natural episode 
to an event that I have related in a former chapter 
(the termination of a disreputable broil at a house 
of infamous resort): it was performed at the Cen- 
tral Criminal Court, and there the story was told in 
more detail than I have previously related it. It 
was in the early dawn of an August day that five 
young men met at a well-known spot. One of 
them was a surgeon and a friend of the unhappy 
man Mirfin who met with his death, and it was 
from his mouth principally that the complete story 
was told. He knew nothing of the nature of the 
quarrel, but there was something terribly signifi- 
cant in the mode in which the deceased urged upon 
him to take care that the pistols were fairly loaded. 
The account given by him was not unfavourable to 
his friend’s opponent. On the first fire the ball 
went through Mirfin’s hat. He took it off, looked 
at it, but against remonstrances from all quarters, 
himself insisted upon another fire, which was fatal 
to him. It must be said—though little can be 


DEATH-BLOW TO DUELLING. 271 


said for duelling—that if the encounter had oc- 
curred between men of any position in society, 
this second fire would not have been permitted. A 
judge long since dead—Mr. Justice Vaughan— 
an excellent specimen of those whom I remember 
in my early days, tried two of the parties to this 
sad scene. The principal escaped, and only two 
of the seconds underwent the ordeal. They were 
both found guilty of murder, and sentence of 
death was recorded. This was a mere form since 
disused, which excluded the capital penalty and 
left the punishment in abeyance. They were im- 
prisoned for a period of twelve months each. I 
knew one of them slightly, by no means a cruel 
man, who has since filled a respectable position 
in society. 

I think that I am not wasting the time of my 
readers in dwelling upon this event, as it may be 
fairly taken as an epoch, from which the brutal 
custom of duelling received its death-blow ; and as 
far as my observation and experience enable me 
to judge, the manners and demeanour of society 
have become much more refined and considerate, 
instead of having retrograded and become coarser, 
as was prophesied would be the case by those who 
advocated the practice. 

Whilst the events that I have just related 
affected materially the impressions of English 


272 PRIZE-FIGHTS. 


society and hastened the abolition of one of the 
remnants of barbarism, another, not altogether 
different in its character, was struggling against the 
increasing refinement of the age to maintain its 
existence. Pugilism at one time was not without 
some claim to chivalry ; 1t was contrasted frequently 
in varied discussions with the alleged use of the 
knife in other countries, and perfect fairness had 
been at one time a characteristic of the encounters ; 
and it was not wonderful that the courage and endur- 
ance displayed should excite the admiration of the 
classes especially to which these athletes belonged, 
and give to themselves a feeling that the profes- 
sion was an honour to themselves and a crown of 
glory to their children. 

As was the case in duels so in prize-fights, it 
would have been useless to appeal to juries to 
vindicate the law. It is not uninteresting to 
witness the decline of such feelings and to glance 
at the cause. The practice, however fairly con- 
ducted, could not be otherwise than coarse and 
cruel, It must always have been surrounded by 
elements distasteful to men of refinement, and grad- 
ually that portion of society which consisted of the 
better classes gave way to the representatives of 
brutal ruffianism, and the honour of the ring be- 
came tainted, first by suspicions, and latterly by 
the certainty, of unfair play. Pugilists ceased to 


SAYERS AND HEENAN. 273 


tbe men; they became mere animals, and were 
backed as such, and hocussed as such. Honour- 
able ambition entered no longer into the minds of 
the combatants; the greed for gold tempted the 
disgusting sacrifice of their bodies.  Blacklegs 
outside the ring had probably paid, or agreed to 
pay, some miserable wretch to endure a certain 
amount of bruises until a previously-arranged 
result gave a sham victory to his opponent. Such 
may fairly be described as being the state of the 
prize-ring at a date of which I have a vivid 
recollection. It was in the year 1860, when the 
talk in every club-room resounded with the 
approaching battle between Tom Sayers, the 
champion of Ingland, and the Benicia Boy, an 
American named Heenan. The contest was to 
revive those good old English days when the 
fists were held in glory. Sayers I had known 
something of, in a matter in which he had been a 
witness. He was apparently a well-conducted, 
powerfully-built man of between thirty and forty. 
Heenan was younger and much taller. The fight 
took place at Farnborough. An immense crowd 
assembled. Whispers were circulated about those 
who, concealing their identity, witnessed the 
conflict. It was perfectly fair in intention; both 
men were thoroughly honourable and their pluck 
undeniable. Amongst the glories obtained by 
VOL. II. At 


274 ACROBATS. 


Sayers was a broken arm. The American nearly 
lost the sight of one of his eyes, whilst the bodies. 
of both were mauled and battered out of human 
shape. Two hours and upwards did this diseustine 
proceeding last, when the victory seemed tending 
to one of the combatants, and then the ferocity of 
the mob broke down the barriers of the ring, a 
tumult occurred, and which of these two heroes: 
was the victor was never determined. From this 
time until recently the custom made no real 
attempt to establish an existence. Lately, out of 
the haunts of the low pot-house, human beings 
have been extracted to furnish amusement to their 
brutal associates, but it 1s satisfactory to find that 
the officers of the law are sternly repressing the. 
attempts, and that the juries have no sympathy 
with the endeavours. 

I sincerely, and with some confidence, hoped 
that an event that occurred two years after the 
famous encounter of which I have furnished my 
readers with a sketch would have directed public 
indignation to a practice which, in its barbarism 
and its attendant cruelties, will bear comparison 
with any that can disgrace civilisation, with such 
force as to prevent its continuance. It occurred in 
July 1863. I will briefly relate its particulars. 
They made a great impression upon my mind at 


THE QUEEN'S LETTER. 275 


the time, and I wrote to several of the newspapers 
upon the subject. 

There was an hilarious festival held at the 
Aston Park, Birmingham, by a certain Order of 
Foresters, and one of the amusing and intellectual 
entertainments selected by the society was the en- 
gagement of a poor woman who designated herself 
the Female Blondin. Of course the performance 
was prepared to meet the taste attributed to the 
audience. The woman had to walk upon the tight- 
rope, and, if I remember rightly, to carry over a 
chair, which she succeeded in doing. After this— 
can humanity believe it ?—her head was enveloped 
in a sack so as to completely blind her, and in this 
condition again she essayed the task. A few falter- 
ing steps—when, either from her nervousness or 
owing to some accident to the gear, she was dashed 
lifeless to the ground. In better and more pathetic 
terms than any I could use, with noble and womanly 
feeling, a letter was written by the command of 
Her Majesty, which, having extracted and pre- 
served it at the time, I make no apology for re- 
producing. 

It was directed to the Mayor of Birmingham, 
and was in the following terms :— 

‘Her Majesty cannot refrain from making 
known to you her personal feelings of horror, that 
- one of her subjects, a female, should have been 
T 2 


276 ACROBATS. 


sacrificed to the demoralising taste unfortunately 
prevalent for exhibitions attended with the greatest 
danger to the performers. Were any proof want- 
ing that such exhibitions are demoralising, I am ~ 
commanded to remark, that it would be at once 
found in the decision arrived at to continue the fes= 
tivities, the hilarities, and the sports of the occasion, 
after an event so melancholy. The Queen trusts 
that you, in common with the rest of the towns- 
people of Birmingham, will use your influence to 
prevent in future the degradation of such exhibi- 
tions in the park, which was gladly opened by her 
Majesty and the beloved Prince Consort, in the 
hope that it would be made serviceable for the 
healthy exercise and rational recreation of the 
people.’ 

It is deserving of observation that these exhi- 
bitions do not involve merely the present danger 
of the persons engaged in them, but are founded 
upon a system of education and training that are 
shocking in the extreme. These wretched contor- 
tionists are brought up to the work from infancy, 
and the means used to render their limbs service- 
able to the purposes of their wretched trade is to 
distort their proper movements, which can only be 
done by subjecting them to infinite torture. And 
a short life of hardship and pain, probably ended 
in agony, is entailed upon our fellow-creatures 


UNION CLUB. hed 


without choice, or, at all events, before they possess 
the means of knowledge. 

I cannot help thinking that it is a scandal that 
these performances, which I have no hesitation in 
saying are illegal, should take place in establish- 
ments under the control of the county justices and 
sanctioned by their license. 

Before concluding this chapter, my mind has 
been greatly exercised as to whether I shall be 
justified in referring again to the Union Club. I 
am quite aware that it is out of place. I ought 
no doubt to have rearranged my former comments ; 
but, then, whilst bound to have no care for the 
trouble to myself, I dreaded the reproachful looks 
of my printer, whose patience I have already sorely 
tried, and so I have determined to throw myself 
upon the consideration of my reader. Since I wrote 
the former pages I have come across my old friend 
Tom Holmes. He is still a member, and rather 
an old one, having been elected in the year 1828. 
His father was the old Tory Whip, and one of the 
most popular men in London, and was, in connec- 
tion with the Lord Lowther of those days, one of 
the earliest promoters of the Club. 

During the years 1804 and 1805 it was, as 
already stated, carried on at a house in St. James’s 
Square. It was at that time a club in which a 
great deal of high play went on, and amongst the 


278 ANECDOTE. 


highest players was a former Lord Rivers. I do 
not know what his connection was with the noble- 
man of that name who has recently died, but it 
was not lineal. 

Mr. Holmes told his son that upon one occa- 
sion this Lord Rivers exhibited to him in the club 
no less a sum than 100,000/. in bank-notes. Whe- — 
ther at that time or not he was fortunate in 
play, it seems that good fortune did not continue 
to follow him, as he drowned himself some years 
after in the Serpentine, the act being attributed 
to losses at play. A singular incident occurred 
at the election of Tom Holmes himself. One 
black ball out of ten excluded, and upon this 
occasion there were eight candidates, and it so 
happened that his name was upon the last box in 
the row. The seven Irish candidates were duly 
elected, in the last were seven black balls. A 
servant came forward and charged a gentleman, | 
the member for some place in Ireland, with having 
voted unfairly. 

It seems that some suspicion had attached to 
him in consequence of former proceedings. The 
ballot was repeated, and Tom Holmes was elected 
without a dissentient voice. No reason seems to 
have existed for the action of this gentleman, who 
made no denial of the fact. Some idea not dis- 
similar to those which are said sometimes to 


ECCENTRICITIES. 279 


actuate the Hibernian mind may have led him to 
hasten by this method the election of his own 
friends. He was of course expelled the club, and 
also from several others of reputation to which he 
belonged. It is due to his memory to mention an 
incident that makes one feel that the act was due 
to some curious hallucination. Some short time 
after the discovery, he sent 100/. to the servant 
who had been the agent of his detection. 

Volumes might be written of the eccentricities 
‘of club life: I have myself known of many. ‘There 
is one that occurs to my mind to mention, as I was 
well acquainted with the facts, and with the mem- 
ber in question. He had been a colonel in the 
army, and was accustomed whilst at dinner, when he 
supposed that no one was looking, to transfer from 
his plate to his pocket-handkerchief divers slices 
of whatever edibles had been supplied to him, and 
these were supposed to supply his breakfast upon 
the following morning. I know as a fact that this 
same gentleman, hearing of a brother-officer being 
in distress, made him a present of 3,000/. without 
any solicitation, and merely remarking that he had 
intended to leave him that amount in his will, and 
thought that it might at the present time be of 
more service. 

I was acquainted with a member of a military 
‘club, and eaeened to go with him into an um- 


280 LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 


brella shop in Regent Street ; he recognised, lying 
upon the counter, an umbrella belonging to him- 
self, and upon examination he found that it bore 
his initials upon the handle. Upon inquiry he 
learnt that it had been left there to have the handle 
changed, by a brother-officer and member of the 
same club. A rather curious incident happened 
to me in the Union Club, which I may as well men- ~ 
tion now. I was lunching with one of its younger 
members—I really forget his name: he told me- 
he was familiar with my name through a letter to 
my father which had come into the possession of 
his, as executor of a Captain Cowell, from the Duke 
of Wellington. This letter, which he showed me, 
and a copy of which will be found in a note at the. 
end of this volume, related to a dinner given to the: 
Duke, and which I have mentioned in a former 
chapter ; it probably came into possession of the: 
Captain as adjutant of the Tower Liberty Militia,. 
which office he had filled at the time. 

One of the objects which led to the creation of 
the Union Club was to bring together within its 
walls men of all shades of politics, and any vio- 
lation of this principle would have been con- 
sidered as a subversion of one of its cardinal rules. 


CHAPTER XXVII. 


LAST CHAPTER. 


THis is the last chapter of the first work I have 
ever ventured to present to the public, and it will be 
found to consist of scraps gathered up from topics 
dwelt upon in preceding pages, put together without 
order, but still, I hope, possessing some interest. 
Before I commenced my professional career 
I was acquainted with Mr. Teesdale, a gentleman 
of very high standing in the City, and solicitor to 
one of the principal dock companies at the time 
my father was magistrate at the Thames Police 
Office. He was the father of Mr. John Marmaduke 
Teesdale, the present head of the firm, and who 
was one of my earliest clients and valued personal 
friends, who was also a member of the Garrick Club, 
partook occasionally of my tendency to Richmond 
and Homburg, and with him I have had many plea- 
sant hours, and upon some personal matters have. 
received very valuable advice. In three of the cases 
that I have thought worthy of recording he was 
the solicitor :—the poisoning case; the Tamworth 
Election Petition, and the action of Wellesley 


282 INCIDENT IN THE POISONING CASE. 


against Pole; and those who know thoroughly 
~ the details of these cases will admit, without hesita- 
tion, the proverbial blindness of justice. 

Having referred to the poisoning case, 1 may — 
mention an incident told me by my friend, and 
which I omitted to record in the account of the 
trial. It may be remembered that a very suspi- 
cious death took place whilst the accused person 
was residing near his brother’s shop. It appeared 
that when he was soliciting a reprieve he supplied 
the Home Secretary with a statement which pur- 
ported to be an account of the places where he 
had resided. ‘This was sent to Mr. Teesdale, who 
noticed that no mention was made of that locality. 
I think it was at a party at which Mr. Teesdale 
was a guest, a story was told which I will not 
impute to him. It was one of that class which the 
narrator declares he knows to be true, but he who 
repeats it only says that it ought to be. It was 
upon the eve of an important debate in the Lords 
that a noble member of that august assembly was 
obliged to preside in a Court of Quarter Sessions 
somewhere in Yorkshire. There was, unfortunately, 
a heavy calendar. What was he to do? ° There 
was no one to take his-place. He consulted the 
chaplain. Whom can a man in difficulty resort to 
with more certainty of comfort and relief? He asks 
him —‘ Who is the greatest scoundrel you have 


ANECDOTE. 283 


in the gaol?’ ‘John Hoggins,’ was the reply. 
What further passed between the noble chairman 
and his clerical adviser I cannot say, but directions 
were given that the said Hoggins should be the 
first prisoner put into the dock. ‘To the great 
surprise of most people he pleaded guilty, and was 
addressed by his lordship somewhat in _ these 
terms :—‘ John Hoggins, the object of punishment 
is to reform, and when, as in your case, after a long 
course of crime, repentance at last comes, the 
court is willing to give effect to it,’ and he con- 
cluded by passing a slight sentence. Hoggins was 
then turned out amongst the other prisoners, who 
most of them exhibited their penitence very expe- 
cditiously in the same form, but their sentences 
seemed rather intended to include what ought to 
have been given John Hoggins than to reward 
their own sense of what was due to society. The 
noble lord, however, was enabled to perform his 
duty to his country in the House of Peers. 
Amongst my brother ‘ degenerates’ was one not 
unworthy of mention. Mr. Serjeant Thomas began 
life in a humble position, but had the good fortune 
to marry early an exceedingly accomplished lady. 
With her help and great perseverance he obtained 
considerable knowledge, especially in modern 
languages. They, together, contributed to the 
press, and by this means and rigid economy he was 


284 SERJEANT THOMAS. 


enabled to get called to the bar. In a certain class 
of case and before common juries he was by no 
means an unsuccessful advocate. There was a 
somewhat unkind joke made at his expense by a 
learned judge. He having moved for a writ of 
Nolle Proséqui instead of Nolle Proséqui, ‘ Pray,’ 
said the judge, ‘do not make anything unneces- 
sarily long on the last day of term.’ Thomas, how- 
ever, astonished the same judge upon another 
occasion by interpreting, offhand, an Italian 
affidavit. 

He was a terrible thorn in the side of Serjeant 
Wilkins; his familiar mode of dealing with this 
gentleman’s stilted sentences was by no means to 
his taste. Iwas present one day at the Sherifis’ 
Court, when these two counsel were opposed to 
each other. Serjeant Wilkins looked as if he 
could have eaten his antagonist, and his voice 
was in perfect keeping with his inflated oratory. 
Thomas arose when his time came, and, fixing 
his eyes upon his opponent, commenced in solemn 
tones with these words, ‘And now the Hurly 
Burly’s done ——’ Wilkins waited for no more, but, 
tucking up his gown, got out of court as quickly 
as he could; not without a remark from Thomas 
which, being somewhat undignified, I abstain from 
repeating. Thomas had brought up his family 
very creditably, but had been unable to realise 


HOMBURG. 285 


any substantial means. At the time of his death his 
widow, a lady long passed her seventieth year, was 
not entitled to any share in the division of the pro- 
perty of the Inn, but I had known much of her 
history, and brought her case before the members, 
and without a dissentient voice I was left to exer- 
cise my own discretion. I sent her the same sum 
as she would have been entitled to if there had 
been no technical bar. And I can recall no more 
gratifying event in my life than the letter I received 
from her in acknowledgment. She told me in the 
most refined and graceful language, every word 
replete with sincerity, that, by the kindness the Inn 
had bestowed upon her, her remaining days were 
left without a care or an anxiety. 

A likeness I possess of the principal spring at 
Homburg, most admirably photographed, brings 
back that place to my memory. It includes myself 
and some of my friends who were staying in that 
locality at the time—with the exception of Signor 
and Madame Arditi none are known to fame. 
There is, however, the figure of a good-looking 
young fellow, whose tale was a sad and singular 
one. It is that of a son of Dion Boucicault, whom 
about that time I saw a good deal of. I do not 
know how long it was after this occasion that he 
had been on a visit in Yorkshire. I think, but am 
not quite sure, that it was with my friend Sir 


286 BOUCICAULT. 


George Armytage. In returning he missed the 
train that he had intended to catch. The next by 
which he travelled met with a collision, which 
injured many of the passengers, but young Bou- 
cicault escaped unhurt, and was actively engaged in 
assisting those that were, when another train dashed 
up and killed him upon the spot. Much sympathy 
was of course exhibited to the parents, who in a 
graceful acknowledgment concluded by saying 
‘that the only trouble he had ever given them was — 
his death.’ 

Those of my readers who may have taken 
up these volumes with the notion that criminal 
courts afford romances that create interest in — 
those accused of crime, will have been greatly dis- 
appointed by my reminiscences ; and indeed my ob- 
servation has led to the conclusion that the motives 
usually are essentially coarse and commonplace, 
and the criminals worthy of very little sympathy. 
I have not been fortunate enough to meet with 
any lovely females who have drowned their infants 
or poisoned their parents from high and praise- 
worthy motives; nor have I met, standing in the 
dock of the Old Bailey, forms that. would have 
sraced the circles of fashionable society. I do not. 
mean to say that many who are seen in that posi- 
tion have not been brought to it by a series of 
circumstances that may make them well worthy of 


eatin ie eed 


THE PAIR ALICE. 287 


the pity of a philanthropist ; but little remains, 
when they have blossomed into this state, that is 


* calculated to command admiration. In the follow- 


ing case, however, of which I had some personal 
knowledge, I can present a young lady who was 
really one of the prettiest girls I ever knew, and 
whose story is not without romance. It is a Miss 
Alice L——. Of her early history I knew nothing ; 
that is to say, before sixteen years old. She was 
not more when first I met her. I think I was 
introduced to her by my friend Captain Bar- 
berie at one of those assemblies dedicated to inno- 
cent recreation, and where the vouchers required 
for the entry were not fenced round with serious 
obstacles. And I presume that it was at one of 
these réwnions that the most noble Lord Frankfort 
—the Baron of Montmorency—met her and fell 
victim to her charms. I can tell my readers 
nothing of the progress of the courtship, or of the 
occasions upon which he lavished upon the idol of 
his affections the jewels appertaining to his ances- 
tral crown. Neither am I able to detail how the 
enthusiastic love of the noble baron became turned 
into such bitter hate that he consigned the lovely 
object of his former admiration to the dungeons of 
Newgate upon the ignoble charge of stealing those 
offerings of his love. Certain it is, however, that 
upon November 3lst, ap. 1840, the charming 


288 HER ACQUITTAL. 


Alice, gracefully standing in the dock of the Old 
Bailey, was the cynosure of hundreds of eyes. 

Of course I was there in person, accompanied — 
by a sympathising spirit. She was defended by 
Mr. Adolphus, whose voice was broken by emotion. 
Indignant glances were showered upon the baron. 
The judge was not unmoved. The jury acquitted 
without a moment’s hesitation, and with a grace- 
ful curtsey she departed from the detested thral- 
dom, celebrated as well as beautiful. 

The manager of an Hast End theatre lost no 
time in securing such a prize,and shortly after her 
release she appeared upon his boards. There was a 
large gathering of the members of the Clarence 
Club assembled to welcome her. I am really 
ashamed to say that I forget in what character she 
appeared, or with what amount of success. Shortly 
afterwards I lost sight of her, and it was not until 
many years after, that, in a different sphere from 
that in which I first met her, again I found myself 
in her presence. She had become, as pretty fair- 
haired girls are wont to do, a portly dame, and 
was married to a gentleman of good position in 
America. She was, when I then met her, upon a 
visit to this country, and extended to me a welcome 
and pleasant recognition. 

The trial, it will be observed, took place forty 
years ago, but I have heard that she is still alive, 


TRIAL AT CENTRAL COURT. 289 


and, in a certain State in America, is a leader of 


_ society. 


One more story connected with the Central 
Court in which honour will not mingle—a story of 
my comparatively early days, when briefs were 
very rare, and warmly welcomed. This was a 
great occasion, and I was junior to Thesiger. As 
in the last I have recorded, the mischievous god 
was at the bottom of it, although the details did 
not exhibit much romance. Our client was a 
young gentleman of position and moderate fortune. 
He occupied a set of rooms in the Temple, and fate 
made him acquainted with a young lady who 
assisted in the disposal of the numerous articles of 
beauty and fashion in the establishment of Marshall 
and Snelgrove in Oxford Street. She was certainly, 
without exception, one of the handsomest. young 
women I have ever seen in my life. I believe that 
the affection that grew up between the parties was 
perfectly honourable. Unfortunately, however, in 
other respects the young lady was not strictly cor- 
rect. She had access to his chambers, and made 
them the receptacle of her employers’ wares. They 
were concealed from his sight; but she, having 
been suspected, was traced, and our client was 
charged with receiving stolen goods, and was placed 
in the dock beside his inamorata. He was perfectly 
innocent, and acquitted without hesitation. For 


VOL. II. U 


290 TRANSPORTATION. 


her there was no defence. She was found guilty, and 
sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. He, 
poor fellow, suffered greatly. I know that he was 
deeply attached to her, and fully forgave her the — 
cruel trial that she had occasioned to him. I learnt 
something of the subsequent history of the damsel. 
Her sentence was duly carried out, but, upon the 
vessel in which she was sent out, there were a 
doctor and a parson. Her bodily ailments required 
the constant attention of the former, whilst the 
latter greatly interested himself in her spiritual 
welfare. I forget which of these it was who suc- 
ceeded in obtaining her affections, but to one of 
them she was married upon her arrival at New 
South Wales. It may not be known to many of 
my readers that in the days of transportation a 
convict might be married to a settler, and was 
assigned to him as a servant, but remained 
amenable to the discipline of the authorities in the 
event of any complaint being made. 

I am told that many happy marriages of this 
class were made, and that some of the colonists 
were not at all sorry to select wives who were 
subject to these restrictions. 


APPENDIX. 


OO 


More D. O24 le «. 


THE following is the extract referred to, April 3, 1834 :— 

‘Yesterday I was forty years old—an anniversary much 
too melancholy to think of. And when I think how in- 
tolerably these forty years have been wasted, how unprofit- 
ably spent, how little store laid up for the future, how 
few the pleasurable recollections of the past, a feeling of 
pain and humiliation comes across me that makes my 
cheeks tingle and burn as I write. It is very seldom that 
I indulge in moralising in this journal of mine. If any- 
body ever reads it, what will they care for my feelings 
and regrets? It is no reason, they will think, that because 
I have wasted my time they should waste theirs in read- 
ing the records of follies that are nothing more than the 
great mass of the world are every day committing. Idle- 
ness, vanity, and selfishness are our besetting sins, and 
we are perpetually whirled about by one or other of them. 
It is certainly more amusing, both to other people and to 
myself (when I look back to what I have written), to read 
the anecdotes and events of the day than all this moral 
stuff (by which I mean stuff as applied to me, not as 
being despicable in itself), but every now and then the 
fancy takes me, and I think I find relief by giving vent 
upon paper to that which I cannot say to anybody—“ Cela 
fait partie de cette doctrine intérieure qu'il ne faut jamais 

U 2 


292 APPENDIX. 


communiquer ” (Stendthal). I am satisfied, and I will go. 
to other things—the foreign or domestic scraps I have 
picked up.’! en 

Vol. II. p. 223. 

The following is a translation of the curious hymn 
with the presentation of which I was honoured by the 
subjects of his Highness, the Gaekwar of Baroda, upon 
my entrance into his dominions. I have referred to it 
and to my reception as indicative of the feeling enter- 
tained towards him. It certainly exhibits much fertility 


of imagination. 
[ Zranslation. | 
To 


THE Most LEARNED 
SERJEANT BALLANTINE. 


May your merits be praised in every nook and corner 
of our country, and may our king be restored to his free- 
dom and throne! 

Then will your praises be sung everywhere. 


Our hearts are filled with rising joy at the mention of 
your name, and we entertain the dear hope that the cloud 
of calamity that hangs over our king will be swept away. 

Then will your praises, &e. 

Is it not natural that the news of the arrest of the king 
of our Gujarath should produce a sensation in our bosom ? 
Oh! give us your helping hand ! 

Then will your praises, &e. 

All the men of Bharata fervently pray to God that — 
their king be released and the grave charges attached to 
him be wiped away. 

Then will your praises, &e. 


1 Greville’s Journal, vol. iii. p. 77. 


APPENDIX. 293 


May pure justice be dealt to our prince in a pure and 
undefiled way! In that case we shall sing merry songs 
expressive of your great glory. 

Then will your praises, &e. 


Dhobi's Pole I have the honour, most learned Sir, to be 
in Khadia, your most obedient servant, 
Ahmedabad, 


HARIPRASAD PEETAMBERRAY DERASARY. 


Vol. II. p. 280. 


TuHE following is a copy of the letter referred to on the 
above page :— 
London, June 13, 1834. 
My dear Sir,—I am sorry to tell you that his Majesty has 
invited me to dine at St. James’s on Saturday the 21st instant. 
As you are aware, these Royal invitations are considered as 
commands, to which all other invitations must give way. Under 
these circumstances I must request the gentlemen of the Tower 
Hamlets to excuse me for absenting myself from their proposed 
dinner at Blackwall, unless they can postpone it until Wed- 
nesday the 25th instant, if that day should suit them, when I 
will attend them with great pleasure. 
Believe me, yours most sincerely, 
WELLINGTON. 


W. Ballantine, Esq., 
Thames Police Office. 


INDEX. 


ABR 
BRAHAM, Mr., ii. 188, 
189 

Accident, fatal, to two clients, 
i, 51 

Acrobats, ii. 274-6 

Actors, i. 27-29 

Adams, Mr. Serjeant, i, 44, 251 

Adelphi Theatre, the old, i. 28 

Aden, ii. 216 

Adolphus, Mr., i. 77, 83-87 ; ii. 
288 

— duel with Alley, i. 84 

— John Leycester, i. 86 

Advocates, nervousness of, i. 79 

Advocacy, bad, ii. 182 

‘ Age, newspaper, 1. 97 

Aitchison, Mr. C. U., ii. 248 

Ainsworth, Mr. W. Harrison, 
ui. 103 

— prophecy of, ii. 105 

‘ Alabama’ claims, ii. 194 

Alderson, Mr. Baron, i. 54,124; 
ii. 108, 251, 297 

Alexandria, voyage to, ii. 212 

Alley, Mr. P., barrister, i. 61, 83 

— duel with Adolphus, i. 84 

Andrews, Mr. Serjeant, i. 67 

Anson, Colonel, i. 191 

Anstey, Mr, Chisholm, ii, 218 

Appeal Court for criminal cases, 
need of, il. 15, 201 et seg., 268 

Arabin, Commissioner, i. 82 

Archdeckne, Mr., original of 
Foker in ‘ Pendennis,’ i. 156 


—+oe = 


BAL 
Arditi, Signor and Mme.,, i. 277; 
li, 285 
Argyll, Duke of, ii. 69 
Arsenic, tests for, ii. 9-11 
Arnold, Mr., judge, i. 65 
Ashburnham House, school, i. 10 
Auckland, Lord, Bishop of Bath 
and Wells, ii, 74 
Austin, Mr. Charles, i. 149 
‘ Australia,’ s.s., ii. 210 
Authors, famous, i. 1383-144 
Autograph collector, an, ii. 142 
‘Avant et devant,’ a French 
painting, i. 292 


AILULIE, Miss Joanna, i. 71 
Balfe, the composer, i. 275 

Ballantine, Mr. Serjeant, early 
years of, i. 1 e¢ seg.; sponsors, 
ii. 73; parents, i. 1 e¢ seg., 75; 
li. 86, 72; school-days, i, 2- 
10; in pleader’s chambers, i. 
13; called to the Bar, i. 15; 
admitted to Inner Temple, i. 11 ; 
becomes a Serjeant, i. 209; 
hymn in honour of, ii. 223, 
292; testimonial to, 1. 217 

Ballantine, Mr., magistrate, i. 75 ; 
li. 35 

— Assistant-Surgeon, ii, 137 

Ballot, the, i. 45 

— a fraudulent, ii. 278 

— a midnight, ii. 68 


296 : : INDEX. 


BAR 

Barber, trials of, i. 260, 263 

—— Mr. Chapman, and Tichborne 
case, li, 172 

Barberie, Captain, i. 114-116; 
Mn ore ee 

‘ Bardell v. Pickwick,’ i. 112, 138, 
215 

Barham, Rev. R. H., i. 110, 220 

Barnes, the pantaloon, i. 290 

Baroda, Gaekwar of, ii. 207 et 
seg. 220 et seqg., 234 

— city of, 224 et seq. 

— — animals at, il. 225, 227, 
228, 231 

— journey to, i1, 222 

Barr, Col., Resident at Baroda, 
iil, 235 

Barrington, Sir Jonah, ii. 69 

Barry, Mr. Edward, uu. 147 

— Judge, i. 282 

Batsford, Misses, 1. 2 

Bayley, Sirs J. 3. 1s); 1. <72, 
218 

Beaconsfield, Lord, i. 69, 8301-2 

— Lady, i. 301 

Bean’s attack on the Queen, ii. 107 

Belcher, Admiral, ii. 83, 85 

Bellew, Lord, ii. 176 

‘Ben Hyam,’ i. 14 

Bentinck, Lord Henry, i. 191, 314 

Berryer, M., on relations between 
Bench and Bar, i. 63; ii, 264 

Bethell, Mr. Richard, ii. 187 

— Sir Richard, see Westbury, Lord 

‘Bethel,’ ‘the little,’ library, ii. 
189 

Betting, i. 55, 56 

Bigamy, curious case of, ii. 2, 8 

Birnie, Sir Richard, i. 31 

Bishop, the murderer, i. 21 

Bishops, dress of, i. 25 

Blackburn, Mr. Justice, ii. 57, 60, 
194 et seq. | 

Bland, Jem, i. 57 

— Mr., actor, i. 286 


BRI : 

Blessington, Lady, and Miss 
Power, i. 800 

Blucher, Prussian general, i. 23 

Bodkin, Mr., judge, i. 40, 83, 99 

Bogle and Tichborne case, ii. 179, 
183 

Bolland, Sir W., judge, i. 148 

‘ Bolt-in-Tun ’ Inn, i. 9 

Bombay, ii. 216 e€ seq. . 

— address from inhabitants of, 
ii, 253 

Booth, Mr., American actor, 1. 
305 

Boucicault, Mr. Dion, story of a 
son of, ii. 285-6 

Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1. 239 

Boultby, Mr., of the ‘Times,’ i. 283 

Bovill, Lord Chief Justice, ii. 172 
et seq. 

Bowen, Mr. Charles, and Tich- 
borne case, ii. 172 

Bowh-Poonaka and Col. Phayre, 
ii, 240 

Bow Street runners, i. 24; ii, 33 

Bradford election petition, ii. 54 

Bramwell, Lord Justice, i. 217; 
ii. 53, 57 

Branson, Mr., counsel for the 
Gaekwar, ii. 284, 252. 

— Mrs. ii. 229 

Brasseur, le Chevalier, 1.228 _ 

Brassey, Mr., M.P., 11. 58; Mrs., 59 

Brett, Mr. Justice, i. 217 

Bribery and public opinion, ii. 
42-45 

Brides en voyage, ii. 214 

Briggs, Mr., murder of, ii. 82 

Brindisi, ii, 212, 255 

— journey to, ii. 212 

Bristol election petition, ii. 49 

British Bank Directors, trial of, 
i, 203-5, 241 

British and Foreign Marine In- 
surance Company and Risk 
Allah, ii, 92 


: BRO 

Broadstairs, i. 5 

Broderic, Mr., i. 67 

Broderip, Mr., 1. 76 

Brodie, Sir Benj., surgeon, i. 30, 
197; ii. 8, 15 

Brooks, Mr. Shirley, i. 225, 281 

Brougham, Lord, i. 187 

Brown, Mr. Joseph, i. 18 

_ Bruce, Lord Justice Knight, ii. 78 

Buckstone, Mr., actor, i. 29, 282; 
ii, 210 

Bulwer, Sir E. Lytton, see Lytton, 
Lord 

_ — Sir H., petition against, ii. 61 

- Burglary, alleged false charge of, 
ii. 25, 26 

Burke, the murderer, i. 19 

Bushe, Mr. John (son of Chief 
Justice), i. 317 

Bycullah Club, Bombay, ii. 217, 
252 

Byles, Mr. Justice, ii. 18 

Byron, Lord, i. 18; ii. 69 


ABS, introduction of, i. 25 
Cairns, Lord, i. 69; 11. 259 
Calcraft, the hangman, i. 108 
Calendar, story of a heavy, il. 282 
Call to the Bar, i. 15 
_ Calthorpe, Col., 11, 58 
-Cancellor, Reginald Channell, 
flogged to death, 1. 189 | 
Canine sagacity, 1. 28 
Cairo, visit to, 11. 255 
Cambridge, Duke of, i. 175 
Campbell, ‘Tom, author of ‘ Plea- 
sures of Memory, i. 118 
— Lord, i. 181, 142-145, 184 e¢ 
seg., 209 
— — at Cremorne Gardens, ii, 194 
— — mistake of, ii. 111, 112 
Campden House Fire, i. 270 
Cantelupe, Lord, i. 54 
Carden, Mr., i. 16 


INDEX. 


297 
CLU 
Caroline, Queen, trial of,i, 72,264 ; 
attacks on, in‘ John Bull,’i. 111 
Cashel, Archbishop of, ii. 48 
‘Cavendish,’ whist-player, i. 316, 
317 
Central Criminal Court, i. 61, 79, 
80, 99, 105; ii. 270, 289 
Chabot, M., ii. 184 
Chambers, Mr. Montague, i, 73 
Chambers, Sir Thomas, ii. 265 
Chamouni, i. 173 
Charitie, Captain, and East India 
Company, ii. 108 
Charlies, or watchmen, i. 24 
Chelmsford, Lord, i. 67-70 
Chesterfield, Earl of, i. 54 
Chief Justices, ii. 111 et seg. 
Chifney, Sam, jockey, i. 59 
‘Church and Stage,’ pamphlet, 
i, 28 
Circuit, i. 61-63 
Circuit mess, i. 65 
City dignitaries, i. 105 
Cumberland House, ii. 68 
Claggett, Mr. Horace, ii. 143 
Claimant, the author retained for 
the, ii. 168 
— cross-examination of, ii, 175 
et seq. 
— arrest of, 11. 177 
— committal, ii. 178 
— indictment of, ii. 180 
Clarence Club, i. 112 e¢ seg., 302; 
ii, 288 
Clarkson, Mr. William, i. 41, 50, 
83, 99 
Clay, Frederick, authority upon 
whist, i. 316 
Clergy, self-denial of the, 1. 26 
Clerkenwell explosion, ii, 146 
Clubs: Brooks’s, ii. 69; United 
Service, ii. 69; White’s, 11. 69. 
See also Clarence Club, Garrick 
Club, Travellers’ Club, and 
Union Club 


298 INDEX. 


COB 

Coburg Theatre, 1. 30 

Cockburn, Chief Justice Sir A., 
i, 217, 236, 245, 268; ii. 30, 
84, 90, 113, 180, 185, 192-196 

Codicils, extraordinary finding of, 
ii. 125-131 

Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice, 
i. 210, 217, 268; ii. 81 

— Sir John, il. 172, 175 et seg. 

Collier, Sir R., i. 268 

Collins, Mr., 1. 51 

Commission, opening the, i. 62 

Common Serjeant, the, ii. 265 

Compton, Mr., ii. 210 

Connor, trial of, for murder, ii. 108 

Conquest, Mr. and Mrs., 1. 48, 49 

Const, Mr., i. 50, 77, 307 

Convict prisons, ii. 205 

— wives, li. 290 

Cooper, Mr. Bransby, i. 116-119, 
308 

— Sir Astley, i. 30, 117-119, 307 

Copley, Mr. Serjeant, see Lynd- 
hurst, Lord 

Coppock, Mr., parliamentary 
agent, 11. 40 

Cork, Mayor of, seditious conduct 
of, ii. 145-148 

Coroners’ courts, ii. 34 

Corry, Mr. Montagu (Lord Row- 
ton), i. 802 

Costello, Mr. Dudley, ii. 104 

Cotton, Mr., Ordinary of New- 
gate, i. 80, 81 

Couch, Sir Richard, ii. 233 

Counsel and solicitor, relations 
between, i. 160 

Courts of Request, i. 31 

Courvoisier, trial of, i. 89 et seq. 

Covent Garden Theatre, i. 26 

Cowell, Capt., ii. 280 

Cox, Mr. Serjeant, election peti- 
tion against, ii. 56 

Cresswell, Mr. Justice, i. 257 ; ii. 
114 


DIC 
Crime, detection of, prevented by 


publicity, ii. 33; punishment B. 


of, i. 95; romance of, ii. 286 
Crimean War, i. 319 
Criminal Courts and judges, ii. 
197-206 
Criminal Courts, reform in pro- 
cedure required, ii. 200 
Crockford’s Club, i. 23, 55 
Croft, Sir Thomas, i. 70, 71 
Croly, Rev. Dr., ii. 139 
Cross-examination, remarks on, i. 
123 et seq. ;- ii. 50 
— silent, i. 161, 162 
Crowder, Mr. Justice, i. 248, 268 
Crown and Civil Courts, i. 62-64 ; 
ii. 200 seq. 


‘J\AILY TELEGRAPH, ac- 
tion against, i. 91 

Damadhur Punt, i. 245 et seq. 

D’Azeglio, Marquis, i. 21 

Debtors’ prisons, i. 31 

De Grey, Lord, i. 255 

Delane, Mr., of the ‘Times,’ 1. 
275-6 

De la Rue, Mr., murder of, i. 

- 80 

Denman, Sir Thomas, i. 71 

— Lord Chief Justice, i. 72, 73, 
184, 217; ui. 199 

— family, i. 70-72 

— Mr., i. 82 

‘Derby Day,’ anecdote of, i. 74 

Desert, train across the, ii. 209 

Devon, Earl of, i. 122 

Devonshire Club, i. 55 

Devonshire, Duke of, ii. 69 

Diary, entries from an old, il. 
136-138 

Dick, Mr. Quintin, ii. 69 

Dickenson, John Nodes, i. 14 

Dickens, Charles, i. 78, 112, 138, 
241, 281; ii, 137 


INDEX. 


DIL 

Dilke, Mr., founder of ‘ Athe- 
num ’ journal, i, 112 

Dilke, Sir C. W., ii. 59 

‘Disowned, The, Lord Lytton’s, 
i, 309-10 

Disraeli, Mr. Benjamin, see Bea- 
consfield, Lord 

Dodd, Mrs., 138 

Dog, the, and the disturbed pas- 
senger, li. 214 

— sagacity ofa, i. 23 

Dogs and vivisection, i. 22 

Donathy, Mrs., murder of, i. 3 

D’Orsay, Count, i. 54, 293 et seq. 

Dowling, Mr. Serjeant, i. 224 

Drama, the, i. 26-30 

Drummond, Mr., murdered, i. 
244 

Drury Lane Theatre, i. 26, 289 

Dubois, Mr., i. 109-112 

Duelling, deathblow to, i. 271 

Duncombe, Mr. T., M.P., ii. 141 

Dunker Rao, Sir, ii. 258 

Dunn, Mr. William, i. 77; i. 
140 

Duvernay, Mdlle., danseuse, i. 
131 


AGLE saloon and theatre, i, 
49 

Edinburgh, i. 19 

Edinburgh, Duke of, shot by 
O'Farrell, ii. 145 

Edlin, Mr., assistant judge, ii. 87 

Edwards, Rev. Mr., i. 7 

Eldon, Lord Chancellor, ii. 112 

Election committees, 11. 40 et seg. 

— judges, ii. 53 et seq. 

— petition trials, ii, 46-50 

— trials, Sir A. Cockburn’s pro- 
test against appointment of the 
judges for, 11. 198 

Elective judges, abolition of, ad- 
vocated, ii. 205 


Z2uy 


FLO 

Ellenborough, Chief Justice, ii. 
258 

Elliotson, Dr., and mesmerism, i. 
242 

Else, John, and the will of George 
Nuttall, 1. 124 e¢ seg. 

‘ Engineer’ steamboat, i. 5 

‘ Englishman,’ the, ii. 181 

Equity lawyers as criminal 
judges, ii. 259 e¢ seq. 

Erle, Chief Justice, i. 210, 263— 
268 ; ii. 127 

Erskine’s advocacy, i. 18, 246, 249 

Evan’s supper-rooms, i. 33, 278 
et seg.; 11. 219 

Evelyn, Mr., high sheriff of 
Guildford, fined 500/., 11. 196 

Evidence, false, 1. 164 

‘ Examiner,’ the, and Sir J. Jervis, 
i, 212 

Execution Dock, ii. 35 


lige in ‘ Oliver Twist,’ 1. 78 
Farquharson, Col., 1. 23 

Fauntleroy, the forger, i. 809 

Fawcett, actor, as ‘Captain 
Copp,’ i. 28, 221 

‘Female Blondin, the death of, 
ii, 275 

Fergusson, Sir W., on vivisec- 
tion, ii. 153-8 

Field v. Brown, divorce suit, 1. 
121 

Fire, appalling incident at a, i. 
225 

Fitzwilliam, Mrs., actress, ii. 210 

Fladgate, Frank, i. 227 

Fleet Prison, i. 31 

Fletcher and Barber, trial of, i. 
260 

Flogging, fatal, of a soldier, ii. 
109 

Flogging for crimes of violence, 
ii. 110 


- 800 
FOL 

Follett, Sir W., i. 125, 143, 193, 
245, 268 

eonbiante Albany, i. 212 

Foote, Miss, the actress, 1. 28, 
288 

Forbes, Sir Charles, ii. 137 

Forester, the brothers, i. 107 

Forster, John, biographer of 
Dickens, i. 187 

— Mr. W. E., petition against, 
ii. 54, 55 

— — letter from, ii. 55 

Frankfort, Lord, 11. 287 

Frantz, Karl, trial of, 11. 198 


AEKWAR of Baroda, trial 
of, 11. 207 et seg., 220 et ong, 7 

252 et seq. 

— deposition of, ii. 248 

— the wife of, ii. 229 

— portrait of, ii. 234, 254 

Gambling, public, in London, i. 
31, 48, 44, 51-55 

— at Homburg and Monaco, i. 
177-183 

Garrick Theatre, i. 48 

— Club, i. 28, 135, 219 et seq. 

—-— Prince of Wales at, ii. 
256) 

Garth, Sir Richard, ii. 211 

Gauge, narrow v. broad, ii. 115 

Gazelee, Mr. Serjeant, i. 215 

Geneva, i. 173 

Gibbs, Alderman, ii. 139 

Gibson, Mrs. Milner, i. 248 

“Gilbert Gurney,’ novel, i. 111- 
112 

Giffard, Mr. Hardinge, ii. 7, 172, 
174 

Giuglini, Signor, i. 273 

‘Gladstone, Mr., ii. 147 

Glass coaches, i. 25 

Good, trial of, for murder, ii. 208 

Goodlake, Col., V.C., i. 320 


‘HEA 
Gomersal, Mr., actor, i. 49 
Goulburn, Mr. Serjeant, i. 156 
Gower, Mr. Leveson, ii. 69 
Granville, Lord, ii. 69 
Green, Mr., of ‘ Evans’s, i. 279; 
ii. 148 a 
Greville, Mr., i. 321; ii, 141, 
293 | | 
Grey, Dy., i, 238, 241 
Grove, Mr. Justice, 3, 27 yay 53, 
61 
Gurney, Mr. Baron, i. 261 
— Mr. Russell, ii. 26 
‘Guy Mannering,’ i. 18, 28 
Gymnasts, 1. 288 


ACKNEY coaches, i. 24 
Hairdresser, an unfortu- 

nate, i. 104 

Haliday, Mrs., murder of, i. 
198 

Hamblet, Mr., steward of Gane 
“rick Gia i, 226 

Hamill, Mr., i. 14 

Hancock’s eating-house, i. 32 

Handwriting as evidence, ii. 
129-134 

Hannen, Sir James, 1. 259; ii. 168 

Hardwick, Mr., magistrate, ii. 73 

Hare, the murderer, i. 19 

Harmer, Alderman, i. 101 

Harrington, murder of, ii. 16. 

Harrison and Joy, Messrs., anec- 
dote of, 1, 41 

Hastings, murder at,i. 162 e¢ seq. 

Hatherley, Lord, i. 130 , 

Hawkins, Mr. Justice, ii. 56, 170, 
172, 180 . 

Hayes, Mr. Serjeant, i. 214; ii. 
130, 182 

— Mr. Justice, i. 158 

Haymarket Theatre, 1. 29 

Headfort, Marquis of, ii. 67 

Healy, Mr., libel case of, ii. 109 


ae 


- 
, 


HEE 


Heenan, the prize-fighter, ii. 273 

Hemchund Futeychund, ii. 243 

Henderson, Major, i. 114-116 

Henry, Sir Thomas, ii. 72, 73 

Hertford, Marquis of, ii. 69 

Higgins, Mr. (‘Jacob Omnium’), 
ii. 258 

Hill, Mr. Matthew Davenport, ii. 
99 

— Mr., original of ‘ Paul Pry,’ i. 
110-112 

Hocker, the murderer, ii. 80 

Holker, Sir John, ii. 267-269 

Holmes, Mr., and Tichborne case, 
ii. 166, 167 

— Mr. T., actor, i. 227; ii. 277 

Homburg, i. 174-182 

— spring at, photograph of, ii. 285 

Home Office, high-handed pro- 
ceedings of, ii. 32, 38 


_ Honey, Miss, actress, i. 29 


Honyman, Sir George, Q.C., ii. 172 


Hook, Theodore, i. 110, 111, 
219-20 ° 
Hopley, Thomas, trial of, ii. 189 

et seq. 


— the artist, ii. 190-2 

Horse-dealing, fraudulent, i. 266 

Horton, Miss Priscilla (Mrs. Ger- 
man Reed), i. 285-6 

House of Commons and the 
Mayor of Cork, counsel in the 
case, il. 147 

— of Lords, reference to judges 
by, i. 247 

Howard, Mrs. W., and the Wick- 
low peerage, ii. 150 

Huddleston, Mr. Baron, i. 41, 
109, 141, 217; ii. 184 

Humphreys, Mr., Q.C., i. 298 

Hunter, John, surgical operation 
of, ii. 156 

Hutton, Mr. R. Holt, ii. 154 

Iiymn in honour of the author, 
li. 223, 292 


INDEX.. 


301 
JUD 
|e poueeee mistaken, i. 165 
‘Inconstant,’ ‘The,’ comedy, 
i, 27, 221 
India, voyage to, ii. 209-216 
Ingelby, Sir W., i. 191 
‘Ingoldsby Legends,’ author of, i. 
110, 220 
Inner Temple, the author admit- 
ted to, i. 11; returns to, i. 218 
Innocent prisoners, release of, ii. 
192, 262 
Insurance case, fraudulent, i. 233 
Inverarity, Mr., ii. 234 
Insanity, i. 246, 250, 256 ; ii. 120 
Irving’s ‘ Annals of our Time,’i. 93 
Italian opera, i. 30 


‘ JACOB OMNIUM”’ (Mr. Hig- 
gins), ii. 258 

James, Mr. Edwin, ii. 40 

— Sir Henry, ii. 56, 61, 271 

— Lord Justice, i. 113; ii. 259 

‘Jarvey, origin of term, i. 24 

Jay, Cyrus, i. 234 

Jefferson and Payne, Messrs., 
solicitors to the Gaekwar, ii. 
216, 252 

Jefferson, Misses, ii. 254 

Jerningham, Mr. C. E., i. 109 

— Mr. H., M.P., i. 109 

Jerrold, Douglas, i. 225, 281 

Jervis, Mr., i. 9 

— Sir John, i. 211, 299 

Jessel, Lord Justice, ii. 259 

Jeune, Mr., and Tichborne case, 
i, 172 

Jewish witnesses, two, i. 49 

Jews and Irish at Wapping, ii. 36 

Jeypore, Maharajah of, ii. 233, 
244 et seq. 

Joel, Herr von, i. 280 

Jones, Dr., whist-player, i. 37 

Judges, Lord Campbell’s opinion 
of the, i. 209 ; 


302 


JUD 
Judges’ dinners, i. 67 
Jura mountains, i. 174 
Juries, mistaken verdicts of, i. 
201-2 
Juryman, an obstinate, il. 51 


ARSLAKE, Sir John, i. 269, 
96; ii. 129 et seg. 
Kean, Charles, i. 221-2 
— Edmund, 1. 27 
Keeley, Robert, actor, i. 29, 223 
Kelly, Chief Baron, i. 150, 217, 
237 
— Miss, as Mee Merrilies, i. 28 
Kemble, Charles, the actor, i. 27, 
28, 97, 220-1 
Kenealy, Dr., 11. 180 et seq. 
Kennedy, Alderman, i. 241 
Kerr, Mr. Commissioner, ii. 79 
Kinglake, Mr. Serjeant, ii. 50 
King’s Counsel, ii. 258 
Kingston Hill murder, ii, 34 
Kleptomania, i. 251-258 
Knox, Mr., magistrate, 11. 29 


ABOUCHERE, Mr., ii. 69 
Lacey, Walter, actor, i. 227 
Laing, Mr., 1. 78 
Landseer, Mr., 11. 100 
— Sir Edward, ii. 89, 100-103 
Law, changes in the, ii, 257 
Law, Hon. Charles Ewan, i. 12, 
81 
Lawrence, Mr., surgeon, 1. 192-3 
Lawrie, Sir P., alderman, 1. 106 
Leeds, Duke of, 11. 69 
Lefroy, the murderer, ii. 82 
Leicester Square, i. 31, 51 
Letter-carriers, letters opened by, 
i, 56 
Lever, Charles, i. 276 
Levy, Mr. and Mrs., i. 29 
Lewis and Lewis, Messrs., i. 102 


MAR 

Licensing system, i, 45 

Lindley, Mr. Justice, i. 217 

Liston, the comedian, i. 12 | 

Locke, Mr. John, late M.P., i. 66 

Locke, Mr., the engineer, ii. 46 

Lola Montes, ii. 106 

London during the author’s 
pupilage, i. 17-36 

London Coffee House, i. 32, 83 

London Docks, information 
against, 1. 150 

Lord Mayor’s dinner, Serjeant 
at, ii. 265 ; 

Love, Miss, and ‘Buy a Broom’ 
ballad, i. 28 

Lowther, Lord, ii. 277 

Louis Napoleon, Prince, i. 293 
et seq. 

Lunatic, cleverness of a, i. 249 

Lunatics, and private asylums, 
ii, 120-1 

Lumley, Mr., garden parties of, 
i, 131 

Lush, Lord Justice, i. 217; u1. 53, 
56, 180, 186 

Lyndhurst, Lord, i. 123, 145-148, 
208 

Lytton, Lord (the late), i. 137, 
141, 301, 308 et seg. ; ii. 88, 85 


ACAULAY, Lord, i, 312 
MacDowell, Mr., reporter, 
i. 88 
Mackeson, Capt., ii. 210 
MacMahon, Mr., 11. 185 
MacNaghten, murderer, i. 244 
Macready, the actor, i. 141, 285 
Magistrates, independence of, ii. 39 
‘ Majestic’ and ‘ Engineer,’ steam- 
boats, 1. 5 
Malabar Hill, Bombay, ii. 216 
Manning, Mr. Serjeant, i. 209, 213 
Mannings, case of the, i. 232 
Marriott, Mr., 1. 15 


MAR 
Marryat, Capt., his novels, ii. 209 
Marshalsea prison, ii. 258 


_ Marshall and Snelgrove, Messrs., 


ii, 289 
Martin, Mr. Baron, i. 231; ii. 17, 
56 
Martini, the acrobat, i. 287 
Mathews, Charles, i. 77, 285 


- Matlock will case, ii. 123 e¢ seq. 


* 


Matrimony, a judge’s advice on, 
i. 265 


Matthews, Mr. and Mrs, Frank, 


ii. 144 
— Mr. H., M.P., counsel for 
Tichborne trustees, ii. 172 


Maule, Mr. Justice, i. 210-11, 247 


Maximilian, Prince, afterwards 
Emperor of Mexico, i. 282 
Meade, Sir R. J., ii. 238, 256 


Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Duke of, 


i. 175 

Melbourne, Lord, i. 142 

Mellor, Mr. Justice, i. 217, 268; 
ii. 538, 61, 180, 186 7 

Melvil, Mr. P. Sandys, ii. 283 

Memento, a pleasant, i. 217 

Merewether, Mr. Serjeant, ii. 42 

— Mr. Henry Allworth, Q.C., i. 
300 ; ii. 42 

‘Merry Monarch,’ the, Kemble as, 
i, 28, 221 

Mesmerism, i. 242 

Middlesex Sessions, i. 40, 61 

Midland Circuit, anecdote of, 
i, 155 

Mirehouse, Common Serjeant, 
i, 82 

Mirfin, shot by Elliott, i. 60; ii. 
270 

Mogni, confession of, ii. 18 

Monaco, i. 182-3 

Monkeys, torture of, ii. 160 

Morris, Mowbray, i. 275 

Morrison, Lieut. (‘ Zadkiel’), ii. 
83-86 


303 
o’SUL 
Morrison v. Belcher, ii. 83 
‘Mr. Ledbury’s Tour, by Albert 
Smith, i. 169-170 
Mulhar Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, 
ii. 221 
Miller, Franz, murderer, ii. 82 
Murray, Leigh, actor, i. 223 
Murray, Capt., ii. 213 


ATURALIST  magistrate’s 
mistake, a, i. 76 
Newbold, Mr., and will of George 
Nuttall, ii. 124, 127 
‘Newcomes,’ ‘ The,’ Thackeray’s, 
ii. 89 
Newton’s eating-house, i. 32 
‘Nineteenth Century ’ on Vivisec- 
tion, ii, 155, 159 
Northbrook, Lord, ii. 236 
Norton, Mr., magistrate, ii. 73; 
action against Lord Melbourne, 
i. 142-144 
Nuttall, Mr. George, case of the 
will of, ii. 123 e¢ seg. 
— John, and will of George 
Nuttall, ii. 125 


Gi Mr. Serjeant, i. 218 

O’Connell, Morgan John, 
i. 224 

O'Donoghue, The, ii. 147 

O’Farrell, fires at the Duke of 
Edinburgh, ii. 145 

Old Bailey, i. 89, 90, 104-8 

O’Neill, Miss, the actress, i. 27 

Opera House, English, i. 28 

Ormsby, General, ii. 67 

Orton family, and the Claimant, 
ii. 166 

Osman and Risk Allah, ii. 91 

Osbaldestone, ‘Squire,’ i. 314 

O'Sullivan, Daniel, Mayor of Cork, 
li. 146 


304 


- OVE 
Overland route, the, ii. 209 
Owen, Professor, ii. 155 
Oxford coach, robbery of, i. 128 
Oxford Circuit, scene upon, il. 
264 . 


AGET, Sir James, ii. 155 
Palmer, Sir Roundell, i. 

256; ii. 259 

— the poisoner, i. 196; il. 7 

Palmerston, Lord, Cockburn’s de- 
fence of, ii. 114 

Pantomime, first experience of a, 
i. 4 

Park, Mr. Justice J. A., i. 154- 
5G tee 

Parke, Mr. Baron, i, 90-92, 
157-167 

Parry, Mr. Serjeant, i. 69, 207, 
217-218 ; i. 7, 180 

Parsee cemetery, Bombay, ii. 217 

Patch, the murderer, i. 119, 308 

Patent theatres, 1. 26 

‘Paul Pry, author of, 112; ori- 
ginal of, 1. 112 

Paul, Sir J. Dean, trial of, i, 299 

Payne, George, 1. 191 

Peel, Mr., speech of, ii. 65 

— Right Hon. Sir R., 11. 70 

— Sir Robert, 2nd Bart., and the 
Police, i. 24 

— — intended murder of, i, 244 

— — death of, ii. 115 

— Sir Robert, present Bart., peti- 
tion against, 11. 61 

Pellizzioni trials, 11. 16 e¢ seq. 

Pelly, Sir Lewis, ii. 223, 280, 256 

Penzance, Lord, i. 255, 258; ii. 
177 

——and Sir A. Cockburn, i, 
118 

Periodical literature, i. 35 

Perjury, charge of, against police- 
men, li. 26 

Peterborough, Lord, ii. 69 


PRO i 

Petersdorff, Mr. Serjeant,i.217 
Petersham election committee, i. 
268 | “ 
— — petition, i. 61 b: 
Phayre, Col., Resident at Baroda, 


alleged attempt to poison him, — if 


li, 235 et seq. 
Phenomenon, a curious, li. 215 
Phillimore, Sir John, i. 258 
Phillipps, Mr. Charles, i. 44, 83, 

86, 187 a 
Phinn, Mr., sudden death of, ii, 

117, 118 a 
‘Piazza,’ the, Covent Cardo hs 

32; i. 100 
Piccadilly Saloon, i. 58 
Pigott, Mr. Baron, i. 215 
Pitt, Col. Horace, ii. 150 
Planché, Mr., 1.284; ii. 140, 144 
Platt, Mr., i. 11, 67, 68 
Poisoning, curious trial for, i. 

1-15, 282 
Police, ae New, i. 24, 108 
— remarks upon the, ii. 28, 24 


-— an adventure with the, 7 30 


Pollard, Mr., and Tichborne case,. 
ii. 172 

Pollock, Chief Justice David, i 
230, 238 

— Sir Frederick (afterwards 
Chief Baron), i. 9, 217, 230; ii. 
6, 98 

Portland Club, 1. 311, 318 

Precedence, patents of, i. 69, 207 

— — granted to author, i. 208 

Prendergast, Mr. Michael, i. 42 

Press, the English, and the Gaek-. 
war of Baroda, ii. 249 

Pretty girlsin the dock, ii. 286-290 

Prince Consort, the, ii. 276 

Prize-fights, 11. 272 et seq. 

Probate and Divorce Court 

_ formed, i, 257 

Promissory notes, alleged dis- 
covery of, ii. 133 


PUL 
Pulling, Mr. Serjeant, i. 
217-2T8 
Purcell, Mr., counsel for the 
- Gaekwar, ii. 234, 252 
— — counsel for Tichborne trus- 
tees, ii. 172 
Pyramids, the, ii. 255 


208, 


UADRANT, Regent Street, i. 

31 

Quain, Dr., i. 302 

Quarter Sessions, Court of, ii. 
86-88 

Queen Caroline, i. 72, 111, 264 

Queen, The, letter from, ii. 275 

— — attacked by Bean, ii. 107 

Queen’s Ancient Serjeant, i. 207 

— Bench, Court of, ii. 83; prison, 
1; Sl 

— Counsel, the first, 1. 207; and 
Serjeants, i. 207-208 

— — anecdote of two, i. 75 

— — robes of, i. 25, 26 

‘Quentin Durward,’ i. 7 


ACHEL, Madame, ii. 77-80 
Raggett, Mr., ii. 68 
Railway accidents, actions, i. 129, 
200, 234 
Ramsbottom, Mrs., case of, i. 241 
Raoji, Col. Phayre’s servant, ii. 
251 et seq. 
Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV. 
of France, 1. 249 
Reade, Mr. Charles, ii. 121 
Readley, Charles, death of, ii. 
90 
Rebbeck, stabbing of, ii. 16 
Rel Sea, the, 1. 218-215 
Reeve, Jack, actor, i. 29 
Regent Street, Quadrant, i. 31 
-— — state of, ii. 28 et seq. 
Reinsch’s test for arsenic, i. 9 


VOL, II: 


INDEX, 305 


x 


SAR 

‘Rejected Addresses,’ authors of, 
i. 110, 219-220 

Released convicts, ii. 206 

Resurrectionists, i. 19 

Ribton, Mr., i. 51 

Rhandi Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, 
death of, 11. 221 

Rhine, first view of, i. 171 

Richards, Mr. Baron, ii. 112 

Richmond, Duke of, ii. 69 

Risk Allah Bey, 11. 89-95 

Rivers, Lord, and Lady, ii. 150, 
152 

— — a former, ii. 278 

Roberts, David, artist, i. 220 

Robertson, the dramatist, i. 282 

Robinson, Dr., Master of the 
Temple, ii. 85, 84 

— Mrs., her beauty, ii. 140 

Roden, Lord, ii. 67 

Roe, Sir Frederick, i. 78 

Rogue, an original, i. 106 

Rolt, Mr., i. 122, 180 

Roney, Sir P. Cusack, ii. 187 

— Lady, ii. 137 

Ros, Lord de, i. 189, 315 

Rose, Mr. W. B., and Tichborne 
case, 1. 172, 176 

Rowlett, Rev. Mr., i. 3 

Rowton, Lord, see Corry, Mr. 
Montagu 

Ruddock, Rev. Joshua, 1. 4 

‘Running Rein’ fraud, i. 54 

Russell, Lord William, murdered, 
i. 89 et seq. 

~— Mr. W., ‘ military correspond- 
ent,’ i. 318 

Rushton, Edward, i. 14 


é REeapU LE the, i, 32 
‘Sadleir, John, M.P., in- 
quest on, 1. 118 
pala, Mrs GOAT st. 277 
Sargood, Mr, Serjeant, i. 69, 218 


306 

SAT 
‘ Satirist’ newspaper, i. 97 
Sayers and Heenan, il. 273 
Scarlett, Sir James, 1. 85 
Scenes, behind the, i. 291 


Scenes in Court, amusing, ii. 60, 


103 
Scherer, Mr., 11. 193 
Scindia, Maharajah, 11. 238 
Scobell, Advocate -General, ii. 
223-4, 234 
— Mrs., ii. 223-225 
Scott, Sir Walter, i. 7, 18 
Sea-sickness, 1. 242 
Selborne, Lord, see Palmer, Sir 
Roundell 
Selwyn, Lord Justice, ii. 71-74 
Sentences, inequality of, 1, 229; 
unpopular, 11. 98 
Serjeant-at-law, what isa? i. 206 
Serjeant, author becomes a, i. 209 
Serjeants, and Queen’s Counsel, 
rank of, i. 207-8 . 
— Lord ‘Carsobell description 
Ole le 
—.dress of, i, 265 i. 222, 266 
— Inn, i. 2, 9, 209; 11. 95, 264 
et seq. 
— — abolition of, ui. 258 
Seward, Dr., 11. 238, 241 
Shakespeare Club, i, 183-137 
Shantaram Narayan, ii. 234 
Shee, Mr. Serjeant, 1. 196, 214; 
ii. 83, 196 
Sheil, the Irish orator, i. 118 
Shelley, the poet, 1. 18 
Shortt, Col., Resident at Baroda, 
li. 285 
Simon, Mr, Serjeant, i. 69, 216 
Simpson, Sir James Young, ex- 
periments in chloroform, ii, 157 
— Mr. Palgrave, 1. 227 
Slack, Ann, forged will of, i. 263 
Slade, Sir Frederick, ii. 72 
— the Spiritualist, 11. 86 
Sleath, Dr., i. 7 


SUN 

Small v. Attwood, appeal, ii. 97 

Smirke, Mr., architect, 11.70 

Smith, Albert, i. 136, 141, 169, 
173, 223, 241, 281 

— Arthur, i. 223, 241 

— Horace and James, i. 110, 219 

— Mr. John Spencer, i. 68 

— O., actor, 1. 29 

— Sir Montague, i. 217, 268 

— Mr. W. HL, MP ten 

Solicitor charged with riot, ii. 
51-52 

Sothern, Mr., 1. 66 

Souter, Mr., commissioner of 
police, 11. 242 

Southern Cross, constellation, ii. 
214 

Spankie, Mr. Serjeant, i. 67 ; bon- - 
mot of, ii. 141; marriage of, 
ii, 142 

Spicer, Henry, i. 28 

Stair, Lord, 11. 67 

Stansfield, Mr , artist, i. 220 


, star and ‘arter,’ Richmond, 


1, 274 
Stephen, Mr. Justice Fitzjames, 
ii, 45, 208 
Stephens, Mr. Darrell, de.th of, 
i, 34 
Sterling, Mr., stage manager, 
i, 28, 289 
Stone, Mr. Frank, artist, i. 113 
— Mr. Marcus, 1. 113- 
Stonyhurst College, ii. 163, 267 
Storks, Mr. Serjeant, i. 213 
St. Paul’s School, i. 6 
Street-lighting by oil lamps, i. 24 
Strickland, Miss, and Lord Camp- 
bell, i. 187 
Sturt, Col. Napier, 1. 320; ii. 256 
Stutfield, Mr., magistrate, ii. 189 
Suicide in the Seine, i. 170 
Sullivar, Mr. A., ii. 147 
Sumner, Bishop, i. 238 
‘Sunbeam,’ Mrs. Brassey’s, ii, 59 


; SUP 
Supernatural, belief in the, i. 
306-8 
Supper-houses, 1. 82, 33 
Surrey theatre, i. 30 
Sussex, Duke of, 11. 69 
Switzerland, impressions of, i. 
166-174 


fMNALFOURD, Mr. Justice, i. 
140-142, 224 

-— Mr. Frank, i. 140 

— Lady, i. 142 

Tamworth election petition, ii. 62 

~ Tattoo marks, and Tichborne case, 

ii, 169 et seq. 

Taverns of Covent Garden, i. 133 

Tawell, the murderer, i. 155 

Taylor, Dr., professor of che- 
mistry, 1. 161, 197; ii. -48 
et seq. 

Taylor, Tom, ii. 210 

Teesdale, Mr., ii. 281 

Temple church, i. 3 

— gardens, i. 4 

Tenterden, Chief Justice, 1. 85; 
ii, 111-112 

Thackeray, W. M., i. 133-187 ; 
i, 140 

Thames police, i. 75; ii. 35 

Thames Police Court, 11. 37 

‘Theatres in London, i. 26-30 

Thesiger, Lord Justice, i. 69, 70 

— Sir F., see Chelmsford, Lord 

Thomas, Mr. Serjeant, 11. 282-5 

— Mrs., 11. 284-5 

Thurtell, murderer, i. 198, 309 

Thwaites, Mrs., her will set aside, 
i, 254-5 

Tichborne baronetcy case, ii. 161— 
186 

— Sir Roger, early history of, 
i. 163 

— Claimant, ii. 152 

— Lady, ii. 166-168, 174 


INDEX. 


307 
VIC : 
Tigers in Baroda, 11. 228 
‘Times’ newspaper, testimonial 
to, i. 120 
— the, on ‘ Vivisection,’ ii. 160 
Tindal, Sir N., chief justice, i, 90, 
148, 244 
Tipperary election petition, ii, 47 
Titiens, Madame, i. 272-3 ; ii. 198 
‘Tum and Jerry’ performed, i. 28 
Toole, Mr., i. 138 
Tower Liberty, magistracy of, 
ii. 139 
Tozer, Mr. Serjeant, i. 216 
Transportation, 1. 95; revival of, 
advocated, 11. 205, 290 
Travellers’ Club, 1. 189; ii. 69 


_ Treasurer of Serjeants’ Inn, the 


author becomes, i. 216 
Tree, Maria, actress, i. 28, 221 
‘Trois Rois,’ at Basle, 1. 170 
Trollope, Anthony, love-scéne by 
ily 1 ae 
Truro, Lord, 1. 9; ii. 96-99 
Tuke, Dr., 7. 121 : 
Turkish experience of English ° 
justice, 1. 15 
Turton, Mr., i. 67 


MBRELLA, story of an, ii.’ 
28055 % 
Union Club, i. 181, 140, 211; ii. 
67-75, 277 
— first committee, 67 
— notable members of, ii. 69-71 


EASEY, Mr., banker, ii. 71- 
72 


Verdict, a foolish, ii. 188 


Vestris, Madame, ii. 141-144 

Vivisection, protest against, i. 21, 
22; ii. 153 -160 

Vickers, Mr. 8., election petition 
against, 11. 59 


308 
VID 
Vidil, Baron de, trial of, ii. 196, 
197 et seq. , 


ADDINGTON, Mr., M.P., 
petition against return of, 
li. 46 
Wagga-Wagga, Claimant at, 11. 
168 
Wakley, Mr., 1. 117, 118; 11. 109, 
-. 141 
Wales, Prince of, i. 176, 228; ii. 
256 
Wallingford election petition, il. 
59 
Walsh, Mr., ii. 119 
Wapping, il. 36 
— Claimant’s visit to, li. 166 
Warboys, Huntingdonshire, early 
memories of, 1. 1 
Warren, Samuel,.1. 69 
Wassudeo Juggonault, 11, 234 
Waters, Margaret, baby-farmer, 
i. 152 
Watson, Dr., tried for treason, 
i. 146, 148, 188 
Watson, Mr. William Hy., 1. 13 
Weare, Mr., murder of, i. 198, 309 
Webb, Sir Henry, ii. 72 
Wellington, Duke of, i. 18, 25, 
- 24; i. 69, 189 
— letter from, 1i. 280, 291 
Wells, Mr. Serjeant, i. 217 
Wensleydale, Baron, i. 159, and 
see Parke, Mr. Baron 
Westbury, Lord, i. 205; 11, 187 
et seq., 259 
W etherall, Sir Charles, i. 146-148 
Western Circuit, eminent men 
upon the, 1. 268 
Westropp, Chief Justice, ii. 218 
Whitcombe, Miss, ii, 137 
White, Col., and Tipperary elec- 
tion petition, 11. 47 


INDEX. 


ZAD 

Wicklow peerage case, 1i, 151-2 

Wiesbaden, Hétel de Quatre 
Saisons at, il. 98 

Wigan, Mr., i. 10 

~— Mrs., actress, i. 29 

Wightman, Mr. Justice, i. 193-4 - 

Wilde, Sir Thomas (Lord Chan- 
cellor), i. 9; ii. 96-99 

— Mr. Serjeant, see Truro, Lord, 
and Wilde, Sir Thomas 

Wilkins, Mr. Charles, i. 100; 
attack on Baron Gurney, i. 261 — 

— Mr. Serjeant, ii, 284 

Wilks, Dr. Samuel, ii. 155 

Will case, extraordinary, ii. 123. 
et seq. . 

Willes, Mr. Justice, ii. 58, 61-66: 

Williams, the murderer, i. 21 

— Mr. Justice John, i. 263-4; 
ii. 192 

— Mr. Montagu, Q.C., ii. 51, 59 

Wilson, Mr. Erasmus, ii. 109 

Wimbledon Common, i. 5 

Windham, General, i. 318 

‘Witnesses, professional, i. 208 

— scientific, 1. 235 

Women, assaults on, i. 108 

Woolley, Mr., and fire insurance: 
companies, i. 271 

Woolrych, Mr. Serjeant, ii, 266 

Wortley, Hon. James Stuart, 
i, 82; ii. 148-9 

Wreck, incidents of a, ii. 210 

Wright, actor, i. 29 


ATES, actor, i. 29 
— Mrs., actress, i. 29 
York, Duke of, ii. 69 


‘ V foot ALMANACK,” 
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Zurich, i. 173 


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